I'm giving away two 200 level seats to Chicago/Miami this Saturday. Rules are fairly straight forward, discuss basketball in the comment thread.

Not much to add, they waived Stinson. Bummer for him that he doesn't get to play in the first preseason game, and he misses out on the free London vacation.

I've got Gordon's official contract numbers 5/58, player option in year 5, unknown incentives that could raise the value further.

Deng still not 100% but has started off-season workouts.

An article I wrote about why trading Derrick Rose, though unthinkable, may work out pretty well.

[From the Fanshots. I'll forgive Doug for spamming my sidebar since he's stepping out as a reporter with this one. And because I've been advocating this line of thinking since Rose was drafted (simple: Rose is a PG, Hinrich is a PG).

Kirk had a solid finish and playoffs, but I appreciate it as the way to get his trade value back, not an audition to stay. And as far as Gordon, if you're letting him walk you might as well sell off other productive pieces too, since you're slashing/rebuilding at that point. -ed.]

The Bulls intend to part ways with Kirk this summer at some point.

Part of a series of blog posts I'll be doing on what each Bulls player should be working on this off season.

Why the Bulls should send Salmons off the team rather than Hinrich in persuit of keeping Ben Gordon.

I sit down with Jonathan Givony of DraftExpress to discuss the latest rumors about the Bulls and the draft as well as break down all of the draft prospects in the draft.

Some very interesting stuff in the first few minutes about the Bulls draft plans.

[Interesting article from the FanShots. Thanks to Doug Thonus for posting the link over here. Well worth the time, imo. -wjb]

I took a look at all of the top perimeter threats in the NBA from all of the teams and compared them to Ben Gordon in isolation usage and effectiveness to see if Gordon stands out as using too much isolation basketball.

A very in depth breakdown of Earl Clark, Dejaun Blair, James Johnson, and BJ Mullens which appears to be the crop of big men clustered around the #16 pick.