Per Woj: Knicks-Bulls Closing in on Derrick Rose Trade/ Edit: Done deal

[Gangstar8]

What the fukk kind f trade is this
Trade rose the home town kid and keep butler?
Not getting any draft picks in return?

 

[Trip]

Yeah that's fine. But we're here in the real world.

And as far as I'm concerned, this is a lateral move to a salary dump. If they start signing older/wack vets to try to make a run, on multi-year deals. Then I'll freak out.

The Hornacek hire signaled a reset, this was natural.

As long as ownership understands the reset(gasp) they should be fine. Westbrook probably isnt coming to the Knicks off of a lottery year(which looks inevitable).

 

[Sean312]

double

 

[cornercommission2k12]

the sleeper in all this, is that holiday is pretty good player. knicks, yall going to like his game.

im still scratching my head on why we included him.

 

[Sean312]

watch rose contend for mvp and butlers knees go out this year smh. this seriously made me hate the bulls organization. im not watching again until garpax is fired

 

[Gangstar8]

Knicks stay catching L's.

bulls lost breh

 

[ALonelyDad]

Rose is not what he used to be but he still commands attention. He gets doubled team some times, people lose their rotations trying to guard him and this was the bad Rose version. Bulls won't have that anymore, guys will solely focus on Butler. Knicks get that type of pg who can take the pressure of Melo a little, and defenses will have to focus on 2 guys and Porzingis who I expect to take a leap this year. Knicks might make the playoffs this year depending on how Phil does with the rest of the roster. Rose, I expect him to be motivated too.

Bulls had to make that move though, but I just don't understand the point in keeping Butler. You will have no Rose, Gasol, or Noah next season. I don't see Butler by himself leading that team to playoffs. If they truly want to rebuild, they should have traded Butler as well and get some draft picks and fully rebuild. They will be stuck in that Iggy Sixers territory and Bulls fans will hate that.

 

[Trapperman Dave]

Rose is not what he used to be but he still commands attention. He gets doubled team some times, people lose their rotations trying to guard him and this was the bad Rose version. Bulls won't have that anymore, guys will solely focus on Butler. Knicks get that type of pg who can take the pressure of Melo a little, and defenses will have to focus on 2 guys and Porzingis who I expect to take a leap this year. Knicks might make the playoffs this year depending on how Phil does with the rest of the roster. Rose, I expect him to be motivated too.

Bulls had to make that move though, but I just don't understand the point in keeping Butler. You will have no Rose, Gasol, or Noah next season. I don't see Butler by himself leading that team to playoffs. If they truly want to rebuild, they should have traded Butler as well and get some draft picks and fully rebuild. They will be stuck in that Iggy Sixers territory and Bulls fans will hate that.

no they won't they are convinced jimmy is so much better than derrick ever was. they'll just say jimmy got hurt having to carry bum players like rose etc etc.

 

[Perfectson]

Don't see how any genuine bulls fan can be mad rose is trash his stats hollow and he always been an overrated pg and he STAY hurt every week its something else.

It's been real he was nice like 5 years ago

exactly, i wish we could have gotten more out of him. But I was hoping he'd get traded years ago...got banned last year from the bulls thread for even suggesting this to @CHICAGO

glad it came to fruition and now we can move on. Wish we didn't have hoiberg though...turns out Thibs was the man that should have been in charge.

 

[god shamgod]

The bulls essentially got a decent,younger 5 to replace noah on a contract that in this new salary cap is a bargain and jerian grant a player the bulls wanted to draft last year for a washed always injured derrick rose.Only roses personal stans are sad,the bulls did not lose this trade except having to take calderons sorry ass back

Still gotta see what else is done I been wanting rose gone for years he's overrated to me

 

[origiNel]

I am SHOCKED that the Knicks were the Finessers and NOT the finessed

All I would like from Rose is to average 15 and 5. He does that, and this trade works out even better. Rose wanted to come to New York, and it seems like he feels that a new start on a new squad will help him reignite his passion for the trade. Even though we gave up RoLo, I really can't be mad at this trade at all, because I am SHOCKED that the Knicks did NOT give up NOT ONE DRAFT PICK.

Not bad Phil, not bad

 

[GilSho]

Why the fukk would the Knicks make this trade especially with RoLo on such a great contract?

Historically, Melo's best seasons have been with a traditional PG (Kidd, Billups) not a scoring PG that's a poor mans version of Kyrie these days.

 

[Big Daddy]

My Knicks

 

[Dirty D]

Rose is gonna go hard in his contract year. He was openly pining to be a free agent and get paid at the start of last season.

The Knicks don't give up anything crucial here, take a chance Rose regains his form and will have a ton of money to spend.

 

[origiNel]

Went on one of the big Knicks blog sites and people are bashing this trade left and right...and I'm thinking no fukking wonder the social media world shyts on the Knicks fanbase, cause some of them are fukking stupid. This is not a bad trade