Dwyane Wade is rumored to be in talks with four teams, including the Chicago Bulls, according to Adrian Wojnarowski of The Vertical.
The Bulls haven’t been very active in early free agency, but that doesn’t mean they aren’t getting squirrely with it now.
According to a tweet from Adrian Wojnarowski of The Vertical, there might be some home-cooking on the NBA hot stove for Wade:
Sources: Dwyane Wade fielding $20 million-a-year offers. Four teams pursuing him. @WojVerticalNBA on @TheVertical. https://t.co/c53bNev6e6
— Ball Don’t Lie (@Balldontlie) July 2, 2016
The source of all of this appears to be that Wade is either not getting offered the money he feels he deserves or he might just be put off by the attention being paid to Hassan Whiteside and Kevin Durant. The Heat just locked up Whiteside with a deal that will pay him quite literally 100 times the amount he made last year. Meanwhile, Pat Riley and Micky Arison, the who’s who of the Miami Heat hierarchy, aren’t focused on getting Wade paid, they are currently chilling in the Hampton’s waiting for Durant to see them when he feels like it.
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All of this is happening while Wade is partying on Snapchat and not seeming all that concerned. Until now.
There isn’t much reason to believe that Wade is going anywhere, and I touched on this in our shooting guard free agency primer on Wednesday. Not only is Wade not a full-time starter any longer, he also carries a price tag and contract length that no team will want to meet outside of a contender with cap room or, well, the Miami Heat.
If the Bulls are seriously interested in bringing on Wade at something in the two or three year range for $20 million, then Ricky O’Donnell is dead on with this tweet:
I think Jason Patt is on to something here:
This all feels like Wade's agent pulling strings here. The stuff about the initial offer. These interested teams. All leverage.
— Jason Patt (@Bulls_Jay) July 2, 2016
Really, there isn’t a single good reason to try to bring Wade in to play with…Jose Calderon and Mike Dunleavy. Wade and Butler combined still wouldn’t even field a team any better than the new-look Knicks and that is a problem.
If there were any truth to these rumors, I would hope that it lies somewhere just north of Chicago. While the Bucks currently don’t have what it would take to bring Wade in from a cap room perspective, all of the ideas of Giannis Antetokounmpo and friends getting a veteran leader who hates losing feels right. Imagine the storylines as one son of Chicago – Dwyane Wade – comes back to the Midwest to wind down his career while mentoring one of the next great sons of Chicago – Jabari Parker.
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We’ll be back as free agency starts to clarify and more is known about which players might be headed to the Windy City in 2016.