and now what the heck is up? They cut it short!!! Wow I've never seen a worse streamline of things happen. First the tv freezes, can't watch it. Then I turn it on 670 and listen, the idiots talk while the players are speaking so you can't even hear anything, they should be fired. Then they cut the press conference short. OMG

HA! "Ty Thomas. That's my guy." Oh god, this is going to be great.

Curry was a stellar pick. With Duhon on the way out the Bulls needed another guard and while Curry has some serious question-marks (and should be given very little wiggle room in terms of off the court issues/errors) but can really help this team.

Last year the Bulls bench lacked offensive fire-power (once Gordon was inserted into the lineup and Noc was out most of the year) and Curry will be able to come off the bench and fire shots while Sef can come off the bench and play smothering defense.

Jermaine Oneal would be a great addition, his only problem is the durability. Will he be healthy for a full season + playoffs? If so then Im all for JO, problem is we don't know making the trade that much more risky.

Whats next do we half to bring in Tim Floyd next

Why? So Paxson and Reinsdorf don't look bad in the papers. It was PR posturing to make the Bulls look good and make Curry look like the typical greedy NBA player.

With the amount of money we are talking about, 30 million dollors of 30 years is peanuts. The key point is that it is spread out over 30 years. AND THE PRIVACY ISSUE HERE IS HUGE! I don't care if he is an athlete. As an athlete the Bulls should have access to his health, but not his genetic make up. Would you be cool with your employer checking your DNA to see if you are more prone to alcoholism? Or your insurance company denying you coverage because you have a gene that makes you more prone to diabetes? How 'bout the police rounding you up as a suspect in a rape case because you have a series of genes that generally lead to super agreassive behavior?

I'm not saying Pax was wrong for trading Curry... Curry was a huge risk and the two picks might turn out to be much better then Curry will ever be.... but I think he has no right to ask for the DNA test

You obviously aren't taking into consideration the change of scenery. We had these players and they were not good. They went to places where they can be good.

Do you watch basketball outside of Chicago? Chandler is having a great year and is averaging a lot less TO per mins played then he did with the Bulls. That tells me that he has learned to play the game. He will also improve as he is only 24. As Bulls fans we need to admit that paxson made a mistake and that will haunt us for years to come.

Yeah. Sorry about that.

I know that if we had this squad with Curry and Wallace we would be the clear favorites to win the East. However, at the time there was absolutely no way the Chicago Bulls could have given Eddy Curry the contract he got from the Knicks. I feel bad for Eddy for leaving because he really is a very solid guy (and misunderstand by many Bulls fans because Eddy was not a problem child by any means) but he took the money and at the time got some bad advice to pass up on the genetic test. It looks like everything was fine but the Bulls weren't about to run a guy out on the court who could die. They even offered to pay him a very good chunk of money for the rest of his life if he took the test and failed.

The Bulls were looking out for him but his agent and friends were telling him the wrong things. Luckily he has stayed healthy and the mistake he made by not trusting the Bulls isn't going to bite him in the butt.
Tyson Chandler would not have put up the numbers he currently is with the Bulls. I liked Chandler but he wasn't working in Chicago and Ben Wallace is twice the player Chandler is. However, I'd be the first to say that Tyson has the potential to be a Ben Wallace type player and at times he is that guy.
Dude, Eddy Curry was hospitalized and missed the rest of the season that year. The Bulls were afraid he had a genetic heart condition and the only way to find out whether he had it or not was to take a medical test. The Bulls had a deal as good, if not better than the one the Knicks offered but it was contingent on Curry taking the genetic test. The Bulls also told Curry that if he failed the test he would get something like 25-30 million from the Bulls (paid out sporatically every year) for the next 25-30 years. I don't think there is a franchise in the league that would have treated Eddy as classy as the Bulls did.

And to this day if you talk to Eddy about it I think he knows just how much the Bulls cared and he's said that. That whole situation also still holds a soft spot to Paxson. I should add if the Bulls had Curry and Deng at 100% in those playoffs we take out the Wizards and probably have a chance at making a nice run (as we were playing tremendous basketball late that season).

I was just thinking about this earlier today. It's a shame. We would easily be the top team in the east with these two still around. Just shows what can happen when you give up on young talent too early. Now were stuck with the now overrated, overpaid, declining Ben Wallace for the next 4 years. P.J. has basically been a waste of space.

I was just thinking about this earlier today. It's a shame. We would easily be the top team in the east with these two still around. Just shows what can happen when you give up on young talent too early. Now were stuck with the now overrated, overpaid, declining Ben Wallace for the next 4 years. P.J. has basically been a waste of space.

Chandler is 11 and 22 so far tonight. In his last 5 he is 11 and 14. On season he is 8, 11 and 2.
Eddy Curry is 20 and 7 on the season.

Both are 24 years old and get paid less than Wallace and Brown.

Why do we have to live through this misery for at least the next 10 years?

Also considering we could've had these two while still retaining our current big 4 of Hinrich, Gordon, Deng, and Nocioni only adds fuel to the fire...

Sure if you don't mind having your wages garnished for the rest of your life, that's cool

Again my answer would be if they wanted to...yes and they'd win too. Key word being if they wanted to.

I just want to give warning that you are asking to get smacked with a lawsuit from ESPN.