Since before the start of last season, the Chicago Bulls could sense that Zach LaVine was going to play with his future in this free agency. During the course he combined declarations of loyalty with his desire to see what the market had to offer. Meanwhile, parallel rumors appeared about the franchise’s doubts about signing the 5-year extension and 200 million dollars that they can offer the shooting guard. However, the last few days have served to make it clear that the Bulls will do “everything possible to get Zach back” in the words of Marc Eversley, the general manager. Arturas Karnisovas, president of operations, complements saying that they want “LaVine to stay here a long time. The plan has not changed.”
For now, the player and his entourage remain silent 72 hours after the opening of the market. A week ago Jake Fischer told in Bleacher Report that The only thing that remained to be closed was the type of option that the contract would have in its fifth year. However, there is still the possibility that the player will scan the market and end up convinced by another project. Nobody can offer him the amount of money and years that Chicago offers him and there are few teams with the salary space necessary to face his file, but stranger things have happened. His initial idea was to look for a set in which he was first sword, which reduces the attractiveness of projects that could offer him that role immediately.
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