What do the Bulls do with Ben Gordon?

[Vermont Green]

http://www.suntimes.com/sports/basketball/bulls/1099677,gordon080908.article

If this article is accurate, Gordon has turned down 6 years @$10M per.  Wow.  So now what do the Bulls do?  I can't imagine there is a team that would trade for him at the kind of money he is looking for (with the Knicks now apparently out of that business).  If they just let him play out, he walks as an unrestricted next year.  I guess if he is signed at the $6M which is the 1 year qualifying offer, maybe they are able to trade him in-season for something.

If I was him, I would be all over $10M per year.

[crownsy]

yea, apperntly ben gordon thinks he's wayyyyyyy better than he actual is.

he has to be getting some bad advice, take the 10 per ben, its about 4 more a year then your worth.

[Kwhit10]

He only brings his shot, he doesn't really do much of anything else. I'm surprised he is being this greedy.

[Chris]

I really don't understand what Gordon is thinking.  Basically all the Bulls can do is let him play out the year on his qualifying offer, and then let him decide whether he wants to stay with the Bulls once he sees what is available (or not available) on the open market.

The Bulls can't really trade him this year though, if he comes back on the qualifying offer.  If they did try to trade him, he would have the right to veto the trade, because it would mean he would be giving up his bird rights, which would make it all but impossible for him to get what he wants next year.

[iowa plowboy]

I'm surprised nobody has come up with a sign-and-trade idea including Brian Scalabrine.

[wdleehi]

Bulls should slap the face of whoever offered that contract to Gordon.


Let him play out the season. 

[BballTim]

Bulls should slap the face of whoever offered that contract to Gordon.


Let him play out the season. 

  I think the Bulls made the offer...

[wdleehi]

Bulls should slap the face of whoever offered that contract to Gordon.


Let him play out the season. 

  I think the Bulls made the offer...

I know.  I meant every member of the organization not involved in the offer finding the one who made the offer.

[zerophase]

i think he thinks he's the next franchise player or something...

[crownsy]

i think he thinks he's the next franchise player or something...

yea, he has to be getting some bad advice.

like, does he honestly think hes going to do better? i guess he might overseas, mabey some oil baron pays him to offset the force that is josh childress.

[GaBerkowitz]

I remember reading somewhere that Ben Gordon felt as the teams leading scorer the last two seasons he deserved to be the highest paid player.  With Larry Hughes making somewhere in the neighborhood of 12 million per.  BG thought he deserved more then that.

Thats his justification.  If you ask me undersized two's that cant pass, guard, or play d arent worth 12 mil per.  What do people think of Eric Gordon as a comparable player to BG?

[Who]

Bulls have luxury tax concerns after the Deng signing. Their starting salary is only about $8mil. Bulls avoid paying luxury tax like it's the plague so chances of him getting a better offer than he has on the table right now are terrible.

[Chris]

Bulls have luxury tax concerns after the Deng signing. Their starting salary is only about $8mil. Bulls avoid paying luxury tax like it's the plague so chances of him getting a better offer than he has on the table right now are terrible.

Well, next year, Gooden will be coming off the cap, and Hughes the year after that.  They also will likely only keep one of Hinrich and Gordon long term, so if they were to resign Gordon, Hinrich would probably be gone as well.

Regardless though, unless Gordon goes out and basically turns into Gilbert Arenas this year, he is not going to be getting close to $10 million per next offseason.

[papa shuttlesworth]

Given the amount of money and length of the contract he has turned down (in several different forms), I think there is more to it than just money.  I think he wants out of Chicago and their platoon of guards.  He is just trying to speed up the process and maybe getting a few extra million in the process. 

[Chris]

Given the amount of money and length of the contract he has turned down (in several different forms), I think there is more to it than just money.  I think he wants out of Chicago and their platoon of guards.  He is just trying to speed up the process and maybe getting a few extra million in the process. 

I don't know.  I would think if that was the case, then he would have been trying hard for a sign and trade this offseason.  I really think he thinks he is worth that much money.