Shaq to the Bulls?

There is a possibility Shaquille O’Neal could be in a Chicago Bulls uniform next season. In a rather surprising discovery, the Phoenix Suns aoneal.jpgnd Bulls plan on engaging in trade talks that could send the future hall of fame center to Chicago, as soon as teams are allowed to talk after the playoffs. Suns GM Steve Kerr is looking to deal Shaq and is said to be interested in Loul Deng. The Suns would like to move the aging center mainly because he has slowed the up-tempo Suns down drastically. They feel Deng could bring some young, athletic energy back to the team. The Suns also feel Deng could still live up to his potential and contract if he can stay healthy.

The Bulls apparently will listen to the potential idea at the very least. However, Chicago fears that O’Neal will slow down the Bulls young, up-tempo style of play (with the Bulls already having a slow moving, aging center on the team in Brad Miller). On the other hand, the Bulls would love to get rid of Loul Deng’s huge contract, especially with the emergence of John Salmons and with their hopes to resign Ben Gordon. In addition, Shaq’s contract expires at the end of next season, freeing up even more money for 2010. The Bulls also feel Shaq could be a good influence on the young big men and could fit temporarily for one season as a low post presence. The trade would likely be O’Neal for Deng, Tim Thomas and Jerome James (assuming James exercises his player option) Look for the Suns and Bulls to at least toy around with the idea.

If those talks do not work out, the Bulls, as we all know, will likely target the Clippers Chris Kaman or Marcus Camby in exchange for Kirk Hinrich. It seems more likely that the Bulls would be interested in Camby with his contact expiring after next season. It will be interesting to see what direction the Bulls go once the off season begins, stay tuned.

it's taken from rumorpress.net - which is apparently a very reliable source for bulls stuff.

if this type of deal goes down, bulls will have a ton of cap space in 2010 as well.

I think this trade happens because it is the rare deal that improves both teams... the Bulls need to dump Deng's contract and could role the dice thinking "if we had Shaq, maybe we beat Boston" and the Suns need to rebuild on the fly, and a way for that to happen would to rejuvenate Deng's career

Now that this is noted though, I think Donnie should get on the horn and offer an expiring for Deng. He is a versatile player that would thrive with MDA... I also think Deng + Lee would be enough to sign and trade for a superstar next offseason

Bulls are going after Wade and Lebron. No helping them out because I think that is a real possibility where those guys could wind up. I really get the feeling Wade is Chicago bound no matter what but I think he is going to bring a friend. My money is still on Bosh following Wade where ever he goes.

Deng's got a HUGE contract and his #s look very unimpressive from last season.

kerr really put a stick in the spokes down there in phoenix. i really thought he would be a good gm because i was always a huge admirer of his articles on yahoo! sports. geeze.

still, if he gets rid of shaq's contract i guess that can go some way towards restoring his reputation and hopefully the suns.