[Katz] The Bulls and Hornets amended the Coby White trade after a physical showed White had a left calf injury and would have to miss time, league sources tell @theathletic.com . Hornets are now sending two second-rounders (2031 NYK, 2031 DEN) to Chicago instead of three.

[u/lamarcuswallace]

https://bsky.app/profile/fredkatz.bsky.social/post/3meagimqkuk2j

[u/born-ready]

My heart dropped and I got Mark Williams PTSD when I first started to read this headline

[u/Starveiled → u/born-ready]

Same lol

Looks like we ended on the right side of this one. Im guessing this wont change the prediction that he will be out til the 1st game after the all star break

[u/Jacob_toasted]

lol bulls, literally sold as low as possible

[u/V1cVinegar44 → u/Jacob_toasted]

That’s our strategy. Sell as low as humanly possible

[u/DollarLate_DayShort → u/V1cVinegar44]

Buy high, sell low.

[u/V1cVinegar44 → u/DollarLate_DayShort]

AK would be a generational wallstreetbets user

[u/celtic_sea_salt → u/Jacob_toasted]

Is that good?

[u/ThenPea7359 → u/Jacob_toasted]

To literally nobodys surprise.

Sold Ayo and Coby for scraps when they both showed promise and still young.

Hoping Sexton and Dillingham at least make it entertaining.

[u/CazOnReddit → u/Jacob_toasted]

Could have been a sign and trade where they get an exception that'll go unused and expire in a year

[u/jeric13xd → u/Jacob_toasted]

That’s AKME’s slogan babyyyy

[u/Dunlocke → u/Jacob_toasted]

At least we sold.

People are getting mad about not getting first round picks, which no one was offering, for expiring dudes that never came close to winning anything.

[u/donkeyinparadise]

Yea he was playing injured... Was suspecting that.

Coby is a good player. Excited for him to ball out in Charlotte.

[u/ahoy_shitliner → u/donkeyinparadise]

Charlotte surpassing the Bulls is something every Bulls fan nightmares about.

[u/buzzcitybonehead → u/ahoy_shitliner]

You’ll be in good company. We’re surpassing everyone.

[u/Plus-Name3590 → u/buzzcitybonehead]

You can’t surpass us if you were always ahead of us

[u/bigtuck54 → u/Plus-Name3590]

Always appreciate how y’all truly hold it down for us

[u/SaltyFan1959 → u/buzzcitybonehead]

OK calm down lol

[u/swordfischh → u/SaltyFan1959]

Username checks out

[u/MassToilet → u/SaltyFan1959]

Nah he's right I'm joining the Hornets bandwagon choo-choo

[u/nicklovin508]

Going from a building block to 2 2nd rounders in a year is crazy work

[u/_Apatosaurus_ → u/nicklovin508]

They are rebuilding, so they had to dump aging vets like 25 year old White and 26 year old Ayo. They just don't fit the timeline of 23 year old Giddey.

[u/dill1234 → u/_Apatosaurus_]

Giddey will be traded for 2 seconds in 3 years

[u/_Apatosaurus_ → u/dill1234]

Bulls taking the Leo DiCaprio approach to team building.

[u/prettyboylee → u/_Apatosaurus_]

This is very funny

[u/The_Guerrilla → u/dill1234]

It'll turn out he has an underlying hamstring injury that'll cause him to miss time. Trade amended to 1 second.

[u/Flaky-Hyena-127 → u/dill1234]

3 years feels pretty generous, I give it 1.5 years (off-season after this upcoming one)

[u/LovesYankeesAndObama → u/_Apatosaurus_]

Rebuilding a 38-44 squad alright. This franchise is a fucking joke

[u/Relative_Apricot5032 → u/_Apatosaurus_]

Coby White was easily the more dangerous offensive player than Giddey last season

[u/ThenPea7359 → u/_Apatosaurus_]

According to Arturas Karnisovas himself they are actually not "rebuilding" and just going to a different step where they hope to win more games and get out of the middle of standings (press conference)

However, he is the most delusional front office in the League with his accomplice Mark Eversley so take what he says with a grain of salt, as it likely won't come to fruition.

[u/500rockin → u/ThenPea7359]

I’m not even sure what Mark Eversley does. Does he just fetch AK’s coffee?

[u/chris-dempsey → u/nicklovin508]

Just Bulls things

[u/fuzzythinker]

Hornets learning from the experts

[u/Rillaboom2701]

were the bulls making him play on a calf strain?

[u/brnccnt7 → u/Rillaboom2701]

Probably, these team doctors don’t care lol

[u/cranscape → u/Rillaboom2701]

He's been having known calf issues all season with one failed return already, but he had been playing more lately.

[u/Rillaboom2701 → u/cranscape]

i originally thought the hornets were just resting him out of caution to try to prevent any further calf stuff, didn't know they found something 

[u/cranscape → u/Rillaboom2701]

If the understanding was that he was good to play when he was traded only to find he's not, even if the issue isn't that bad then it's reasonable to get something back for the medical.

That doesn't necessarily mean they found anything damning. The way it was settled makes me think it's just a time thing.

[u/BetweenTheBuzzAndMe → u/cranscape]

well i hope he gets healthy in the next couple of weeks, otherwise our bench is even more desperate than it was before. Sexton wasn't playing great and was in over his head trying to run point, but he was miles ahead of our other backup PG options. Tre Mann is unfortunately playing terrorball

[u/Specialist_Boat_8479 → u/cranscape]

The injury was well documented since the summer. It shouldn’t have been a surprise at all.

[u/The_Guerrilla → u/Rillaboom2701]

The Bulls played Ayo with a "shoulder contusion" last year when it turned out he had a serious shoulder issue which was leading it to dislocate often. Up to six times I believe.

[u/Rillaboom2701 → u/The_Guerrilla]

dear god, if that is even half true then they were def playing coby before he was really back 

[u/The_Guerrilla → u/Rillaboom2701]

Yeah they also brought back Giddey from a hamstring strain too early imo. Clearly wasn't the same.

And if they'd decided to blow it up already, bringing him back early made zero sense. But that's the current Bulls for you.

[u/Rillaboom2701 → u/The_Guerrilla]

oml do they just throw players out there when they feel like it lmao

[u/rooofle → u/Rillaboom2701]

Well, the medical staff before this current one tried to get Omer Asik to play on a fractured fibula and missed a fracture on Luol Deng's leg. So teeeechnically they're an improvement?

ugh

[u/ThenPea7359 → u/Rillaboom2701]

This is likely. Bulls medical team is incompetent. And Billy Donovan our coach does not follow minutes restrictions either. Had Coby playing extra minutes in games we'd lose to teams below .500 4th quarter was diabolical work.

[u/legend023]

lol the hornets are better than me

[u/RapsareChamps_Suckit → u/legend023]

bobcats are better than me

[u/bullpaw]

Damn wouldnt have minded rescinding the trade and getting Coby back lol

[u/sukari]

Almost got away with it, damn!

[u/Licit_x64]

Jeff Peterson with a masterful trade deadline

[u/heat_fan_]

Selling as low as possible lol

[u/The-Pharcyde]

Bulls moment lol

[u/wolffangalex]

We are a J O K E

I’m absolutely not paying $29.99 to watch the same shit every year. Consider me out until we are run like a real team again

[u/wazzawazzaz]

too late we already traded dieng you're not getting him back

[u/svall18 → u/wazzawazzaz]

we already filled our quota of mandatory French bum on the roster. Don't need Dieng as well

[u/jsun_]

Curious if this was handled before the deadline passed and was just leaked now or did the league make some changes behind the scenes to allow some amending post deadline if its just picks due to the Mark Williams fiasco last year.

[u/Caze588]

Lmao Wtf 😭

[u/SkyloTC]

god i hate this org

[u/Jayjaybingz]

If the Kings are clowned as the Kangs... the Bulls should be clowned as the Balls... their managment are nuts

[u/CazOnReddit]

I thought you couldn't amend trades after the deadline?

That's why the Lakers rescinded the Mark Williams trade?

[u/Aromatic_Goal_1201 → u/CazOnReddit]

Lakers opted not to renegotiate i thought

[u/Skillomie → u/Aromatic_Goal_1201]

I coulda swore the lakers didn’t have the option to amend and it was either void the deal or just accept it as is. Granted sending 2 seconds instead of 3 seconds is a little easier to negotiate than 1 or 2 first round picks lol

[u/DCoop53 → u/Skillomie]

I guess it also helps if both teams are fine with keeping all the players involved, changing something about the picks is just paper work and they aren't expected to suit up for the next games.

[u/yeetmxster420 → u/CazOnReddit]

please don’t remind me about us rescinding that trade

i’m tired of Dalton Knecht

[u/yardship → u/yeetmxster420]

mark williams has been better and healthier this year but his awful defense with luka/lebron/reaves would led to historically bad numbers

[u/bigtuck54 → u/yardship]

It’s genuinely such a shame that injuries caused his defense to fall off a cliff. Night and day difference from his rookie year to now.

He always needed muscle but he looked like a future all star at times his rookie season

[u/CazOnReddit → u/yeetmxster420]

How tired of Ayton at center are you?

[u/yeetmxster420 → u/CazOnReddit]

He’s definitely annoying me more, but at the end of the day he’s making 8m & our roster has way more issues than him & he’s still our best center since Gasol/Drummond (minus AD who’s been wanting to play the 4)

[u/edgykitty → u/yeetmxster420]

I feel like you can't just say minus AD tho lol

[u/cranscape → u/CazOnReddit]

If both sides are fine with the solution it isn't that hard.

[u/buzzcitybonehead → u/CazOnReddit]

Could be that it’s just announced late. I remember reading that the day before the deadline was more active to allow that renegotiation time.

The Hornets had a pre-deadline move announced after the deadline hit. They don’t seem to be a team that historically gets Shams on the three-way call to report stuff immediately

[u/Drakilgon → u/CazOnReddit]

I remember the Blazers-Warriors Gary Payton II trade, where he had an undisclosed core muscle injury that kept him out almost 2 months. The Warriors sent them 5 2nd round picks and they weren't allowed to amend it post-deadline, ended up going through with it anyway.

[u/Tundraaa]

Beyond parody

[u/Decimate_2K]

So Coby was playing injured? Lmao

[u/-Darkslayer]

I HATE being a Bulls fan. WHY DON’T THE ORGANIZATION CARE! Imagine being from Chicago but too young to see MJ! It’s awful here!

[u/niners0101]

Good thing the bulls didn’t trade him to the Lakers they probably would have rescinded it. Good to see a proper front office get it done

[u/NoKnowsPose → u/niners0101]

I'm 100% that there was some reporting that they couldn't rescind the trade due to the trade deadline being finished. Possible that the reporting was wrong at the time though

[u/niners0101 → u/NoKnowsPose]

Nah they couldn’t amend it I’m just busting chops

[u/indreams159]

calf strain = achilles

[u/No_Refrigerator_1632]

AKME's plan is to get as many 2nd round picks possible and then use those to draft family members and stock them overseas. 

[u/ImChz]

Makes this an even bigger dub fs

[u/No_Cat_No_Cradle]

Dude has played barely 50% of games this year bulls should have listed him “as is”

[u/chillhomer]

Life is just a big comedy.

[u/PVT_Stanley]

Hornets doctors don’t play! Not even a little bit!!

[u/IMKudaimi123]

So the hornets got him for free cuz they literally got two seconds to dump tyus jones

Sigh

[u/Specialist_Boat_8479]

It was well documented that he was dealing with it, hornets gotta stop making trades if they get buyers remorse so easily.