Hi, welcome on to a Tuesday morning edition of Dunkdown Prime.

Let's start the Central Division Trade Deline preview with the just-teased Chicago Bulls.

And we will at least partially refrain from our normal bulls-related frustrations about how a team in this situation should be more aggressively selling than the even like

partial selling that they may be doing.

And let's remind people that this situation includes having a top 10 protected pick this

season that they owe to San Antonio that is then top eight protected the next two years after

that.

Yes.

Thank you very much for for conveying that.

And for me, it's more the, it's,

these situations are more about the lack of upside rather than the downside. And what I mean by that is

there is a distinct chance that the Bulls make the play in. There is a chance that they make it

through the play into the playoffs. They will not win a series. And I personally, if I were running a team, I have no interest in being that level of franchise.

If you don't have the upside to be significantly better than that in the next couple years.

You know, you can be where Cleveland was a couple years ago, all that kind of stuff.

So to me, that isn't just moving on from Zach Levine, moving on from Nikola Vuccivich, which I fully support, but also actively

shopping Kobe White, actively shopping, I would assume, mu, because those players are on extremely

team-friendly contracts, which the Bulls can benefit from, but they're going to not be on those

contracts starting in the 26-27 season, which is probably the early side of when a new look bulls could potentially be relevant.

Yeah, and also, Dssoon moo, he might be extendable.

I would say White probably isn't just because he makes too little.

I think that Kobe White at least should be getting over $20 million.

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