Full Show - July 16, 2026

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What happened with the Bulls' Patrick Williams draft and contract decision?

Jamal Collier 0:00

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Unknown 0:23

Rahimi Harrison-Grody. 10-2 on 104.3 The Score.

Rahimi Harrison-Grody 0:28

If you read the story Jamal Collier wrote that came out yesterday, the headline is Inside the Hopeful Resurrection of the Chicago Bulls and What's Next. Now listen, he led with the hope. But after I heard, heard, read, absorbed, had a theory proven when I looked at the drafting process as to the decision made to get Patrick Williams, who I maintain this is not his fault. He seems like a very wonderful person who handles this all with grace and class, and he deserves all of that. But the fact of the matter is, that they could have drafted and wanted to draft Tyrese Halliburton. Oh, no! And that not only did Arturas Karnaschovas and Mark Eversley double down on their decision to go against the thought of many people in the building to take Halliburton, they decided to not do that and insist on Patrick Williams because his hand size was similar to Kawhi Leonard.

Amy Trask 1:23

Big, masculine.

Rahimi Harrison-Grody 1:26

My hands tell a story. greatness you can't bat a thousand you can't hit on a hundred but the fact that they not only drafted him but they went out and they decided to pay this man in extension form again i think i've said this what a hundred times on the station absolutely a restricted free agent did not make him go out and sign an offer sheet and see what other teams were willing to give him they just said here i'm Take this five-year, $90 million contract. Several staffers said they were blindsided by the terms.

Unknown 2:00

I'm going to have a poker face.

Rahimi Harrison-Grody 2:03

It took probably three or four years for them to come off of the, well, he could be Kawhi statements. Could be Kawhi.

Marshall Harris 2:14

What it do, baby? Yeah.

Rahimi Harrison-Grody 2:14

Why don't you and I just get on a basketball court and somebody could say we could be somebody? Quote, those things continued to linger even after Patrick pretty demonstrably proved that he was not going to be Kawhi. In the case of 10-month Patrick Williams, you are not Kawhi Leonard.

Unknown 2:35

Layla Rahimi, Marshall Harris, Mark Grody. Middays 10 a.m.

Marshall Harris 2:40

to 2 on Chicago Sports Radio 104.3 The Score.

Rahimi Harrison-Grody 2:46

Oh, no, you did not, Tyler Biederbaugh. And we're not mad all over again. No, we are not. Blindsided. You don't have to get mad all over again if you just stay mad. Amen. Stay mad. If this show teaches you nothing, you don't have to get mad twice if you stay mad once. It's like Udonis Haslam on another level. Somebody asked for the smoke because we got it all outside today. Oh, my goodness. This is Rahimi Harrison-Grody on 104.3 The Score. We are happy that you are joining us on this Thursday. If you want more on that, and I was surprised to see, I posted a video to my TikTok, to my Facebook, actually. Yeah, that's right. Do you know how to post videos to Facebook? I do. There was a lot of discussion. So if you want to get in on that discussion, 11 o'clock, Jamal Collier, who wrote that article, is going to join us.

Rahimi Harrison-Grody 3:42

In the meantime, we got one more day, one more day of no baseball until the White Sox and the Cubs get it started on Friday in the proverbial second half of the season. And I'm asking the question not just to my partner, Marshall Harris, not just to our team, Ray Diaz, Tyler Biederbaugh, but also to you at 312-644-6767. Aside from the trades, aside from trade deadline stuff, we've talked about that. We will. We will continue to track it. Aside from that, out of what you've seen out of these two teams, your teams on the field, what do you need to either have happen or continue? to have the teams make the playoffs. I'm going to say playoffs. You can extend it to division if you want, but make the playoffs.

Rahimi Harrison-Grody 4:29

Assuming that that is the goal for each team, and since they're both still in the playoff race very much, I figure pick up where you leave off. So I want to go with three things. I'm going to start with the Cubs, Marshall. How are you feeling as we get the scene setter going? They're in a much better place now than they were even two weeks ago. The month of July went well for them. So well that I argue, I know they love a break, but I even think that the All-Star game may have come at a bad time for some of these guys.