With their 2 most recent trades, the Chicago Bulls can near pefect salary matching trade for the Antetokounmpos
The Chicago Bulls made two seemingly weird trades in the last 24 hrs after the odds for them obtaining Giannis spiked
First Trade: Bulls sent out Huerter and Saric for Conley and Ivey. Getting Ivey for Huerter is honestly great. But Conley’s inclusion is surprising/wierd
Second Trade: Bulls send out Vucevic for Anfernee Simons. Teams also swapped 2nd round picks. This move also added 6M to the Bulls payroll
With their newly aquired players, The Bulls now have a salary package of Zach Collins, Anfernee Simons, and Mike Conley that adds up to $56.5M
Giannis, Thanasis, and Alex Antetokounmpo combined make $56.4M.
In NBA terms this is as perfect as salary matching comes, a $110k difference is nothing
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Now I would be shocked to see a Bulls trade go through without including Buzelis or Essengue (or I guess Ivey?). But its weirdly suspicious how well this salary package would add up to be combined with all of Chicago’s tradable picks for Giannis