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Since the Bulls made Memphis point guard Derrick Rose the first pick in the 2008 draft a week and a half ago, there has been more than a bit of theorizing from observers across the Association that the end of Kirk Hinrich's days in Chicago are near.
Hinrich is on the books for an onerous $36.5 million between now and 2012. He's also a point guard but no longer the franchise point guard. Thus, shipping him rather than paying quite a chunk of change to a back-up seems logical enough.
But the actual plan may in fact be a third option.
As ESPN's Marc Stein reported in yesterday's Daily Dime (http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/columns/story?columnist=stein_marc page=FA-notes-080707), there is at least some sentiment that has arisen in the Chicago organization in favor of moving restricted free agent shooting guard Ben Gordon in a sign-and-trade while sliding Hinrich into the starting shooting guard's role.
The first part has sounded excellent for some time, but I'm unsure of how much sense it makes if the latter is part of the equation.
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Since the Bulls made Memphis point guard Derrick Rose the first pick in the 2008 draft a week and a half ago, there has been more than a bit of theorizing from observers across the Association that the end of Kirk Hinrich's days in Chicago are near.
Hinrich is on the books for an onerous $36.5 million between now and 2012. He's also a point guard but no longer the franchise point guard. Thus, shipping him rather than paying quite a chunk of change to a back-up seems logical enough.
But the actual plan may in fact be a third option.
As ESPN's Marc Stein reported in yesterday's Daily Dime (http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/columns/story?columnist=stein_marc page=FA-notes-080707), there is at least some sentiment that has arisen in the Chicago organization in favor of moving restricted free agent shooting guard Ben Gordon in a sign-and-trade while sliding Hinrich into the starting shooting guard's role.
The first part has sounded excellent for some time, but I'm unsure of how much sense it makes if the latter is part of the equation.
Read More.. (index.php?option=com_content task=view id=3562 Itemid=260)
All of Steve's daily posts can be found in the CelticsBlog: NBA blog. Check him out!
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