Top 10: Worst Moments of the Chicago Bulls 2012 Season
By Josh Hill
Mandatory Credit: Thomas Campbell-USA TODAY Sports
5. Chicago Loses Omer Asik in Free Agency
This techincally happened in 2013 but A) it’s not 2013 yet and B) this is a run up to the positivity we’re experiencing today with the Bulls. Losing Omer Asik wasn’t that big of a deal, except that by losing him the Bulls front office showed that they were just little children with their hands smeared in paint, rubbing them all over the walls of the United Center.
Bulls fans were promised that re-signing Omer Asik was the team’s number one priority heading into the offseason. No matter the cot, Omer Asik would be in a Bulls uniform the following season.
Or so we were told.
Once the Rockets came in with their poison pill contract, Chicago put it’s tail between it’s legs, wouldn’t shut up about Nikola Mirotic and allowed Asik to walk to Houston for $25 million over three years.
Was that over paying for Asik, no matter how you look at it the answer is yes. But that’s not the point; the here point is that the Bulls reneged on a promise they made and it opened a flood gate of deception that plagued the Bulls offseason and did nothing to get the bitter taste of what had just happened in May leave the mouths of Bulls fans.