when thinking of a trade you are looking to accomplish one of the following...
1. trade a contract with more than this year for an expiring contract to create cap space
2. trading for a player that you think makes you a much better team in the present and/or future
3. acquiring draft picks
there aren't a lot of options out there that will get the bulls any of those advantages. trading noah for another expiring contract for example, makes literally little to no sense unless you are getting draft pick compensation back as well. whomever it is will just be walking at the end of this season. the contracts that make sense to try and move for cap space clearing purposes are rose, Gibson, niko, pau, Dunleavy, and snell. obviously, some of those contracts are easier to move than others.
hell since rami mentioned acquiring Eric Gordon, how about derrick rose for eric Gordon? gets us out from under rose's contract and clears that cap space with the incoming expiring contract of Gordon. new Orleans would get a guy who can still put some butts in the seats in rose and they could pair rose and Anthony davis together then. who knows if NO makes that trade, but if im the bulls I certainly would.
I still like the idea of trading pau and snelly cat to Memphis for jeff green and his expiring contract as well. grizz would happily do that trade since it would pair up the gasol brothers whom the city of Memphis absolutely adore
