 What's the word, y'all? Shams, NBA teams are probing the availability of Bulls two-time all-star, Zach Levine, and there is an increased openness from both sides about exploring the trade. Y'all, I used to dream for times like this. I won't lie. We've been waiting for them to break up the men three for some time. And I'm not calling Vuch, Demar, or Zach Levine individually, me because all of them are good at what they do. But collectively, this is the only big three that I can remember that have a negative net rating when on the court together. These boys cannot score and cannot defend one together. Like everybody has seen the writing on the wall that this court was not good enough to win. And you paid a lot to these players to win. Everybody saw happening except for the front office. And it feels as though they're starting to realize. Over the off season, there was a lot of rumors about the Chicago Bulls calling other general managers trying to figure out what the value of Zach Levine was. And they always said, no, that's not true. Those rumors are not true. But Zach Levine in his first press conference of the year, he said, where there's smoke, there's fire. Obviously hearing that the Bulls are really testing his market and so on and so forth. So he has become increasingly irritated with the trade, I guess rumors. And the fact that the Bulls can't, can't win. Until a couple of years ago when they made the playoffs against Milwaukee Bucks, he was the oldest player in the league with no playoff appearance. And he did that. But obviously Zach maybe wants a little bit more and the Bulls are looking to make changes. They won't think about this when I read this article when Shams put together an article. It was like two paragraphs. You know what I'm saying? It makes me feel as though they're not doing a rebuild, but instead they're gonna try to retool trade Zach Levine for whatever pieces and keep it tomorrow and to keep it in the Kola Vucevitz. I personally don't love that idea. I feel like in order to get the full value of this messed up core, you have to tear it down to his nuts and bolts. But I don't, I don't look at this front office and look at their history and think that they're in the, in the market of selling. But instead they want to retool. And because of that, that scares me. But what I do like, what I, what I do like is that these other teams across the association, the other fans of teams across the association drawing up their own trades. Because a lot of people are interested in Zach Levine's talents because he is an extremely, extremely talented scorer. He can score the best of them. And I believe there's a lot of teams that can definitely use his services about what are the Bulls prioritizing because we don't really know. This is an organization that has kept their cars close to their chest. They don't really tell you what they're thinking. And when they do tell you, they're typically lying to you. So I'm a little bit afraid because this off season they told us, hey, our three-point frequency and efficiency is going to be really good this year. It's not that. And if we're trading Zach Levine away to retool, he's the one player that gets up three-point attempts. So it's like, what do we, what do we do? Are we just going to go back to 2005 and just do all mid-range jump shots without Zach Levine here? I don't, I don't know. It's a little bit scary, but it's like the exciting kind of scary. You know what I'm saying? I got a little bit of anxiety thinking about Zach Levine getting traded because I feel like once that notification hits of he's getting traded, I'm not going to initially like to trade. Let's be real. I think that's how we all are when you see one of your favorite players get traded. The thing is also the timetable because a lot of people who sign their contracts this year are not eligible to be traded to December 15th and there's another batch of NBA players that aren't able to be traded until January 15th and there's another batch of players that don't get eligible to be traded until February. So it's a matter of when does this trade go down and what teams would be interested? Are you waiting until the middle of January to pull off a trade to the Lakers because the Lakers can't do the trade until January 15th when Russell, what? No, Russell, D'Angelo Russell or Rui Hachimora is able to be traded. I know Lakers fans are in my message crazy right now drawing up the same, oh, same old trade package. His tweet is from Fanduul. The Fanduul, Zach Levine and Alice Caruso for D'Angelo Russell, Rui Hachimora, Torian Prince, Jay Lucifino, one first round pick. Get out of here with that. Get out of here with that. Zach and Caruso for one first round pick, this doesn't do anything for us. In 2029, this is not a trade. You can look at your fan base and say, we won this trade because you're not going to because Alice Caruso is that good of a player that him himself won't at least a first round pick. And we should be able to at least get a pick for Zach Levine as well. The one thing about Zach's value is that because he signed that Super Max extension or close to that Super Max extension last off season, he's guaranteed a ton of money over the next four years. And the question is of the other 29 teams across the association, how many of them look at that contract as a thing that they'd be willing to give up multiple first round picks? Our friend Nikias Duncan put together a tweet and Nikias is a mysterious guy. I'm assuming he's talking about Zach Levine here because he does not give you a lot of context. But based on the teams mentioned, I think that's what he's going with. Philly, Miami at his top two, makes sense. Philly has all the assets from the James Harden trade but also a trade that can't be done anytime soon. And then Miami has like Cal Laury and I think two tradable first round picks and they got some picks basically. That's really what the Miami heat package really looks like. He asked Orlando, LA, Toronto, OKC and New Orleans as teams that I'm assuming this is just teams that he think would be interested or he'd be interested in seeing Zach Levine on that team. And of this, I'm very intrigued by the Orlando magic. Not because I look at their roster. It's like, oh, we want this piece, this piece. But like for them, half court offense, half court shooting in general has been a struggle. Zach Levine provides a lot of the things that they would need. Like when Buddy Hill was rumored to be traded a couple months ago, I was like, oh, Orlando needs to be a team that's picking up the phone because they just need shooting. They have not had shooting so far in the Palo Bancaro era and Zach Levine is a shooter. He's getting up seven to eight a game at Goody Fishery and he just comes in immediately and adds some backcourt scoring which they don't have. Now the question is for Orlando, what do you give up? Do the Bulls want to make another trade with Orlando after they finesse them last time? Maybe I will be a little bit hesitant about that. But I got my players on the Orlando magic roster I would be interested in. I just don't think they'd be interested in trading them away in the Zach Levine trade. So that's why I'm not going to build my own Zach Levine trades because I think no matter what I do, it's going to be hard to put my biases aside even if they're like subconscious, I guess, right? Maybe because he's on my favorite team, I value him a lot more than what your Lendo magic might. So I might want Jalen Suggs and this and that. They're like, no, we're not giving you Jalen Suggs because he's really, really good and I'm not mad at them for that. He also hit the OKC Thunder on his list which is just like OKC. Based on the way Sam Preci has operated in his interviews during this offseason, he doesn't seem like the type of dude to go all in at this moment. Going all in on Zach Levine is maybe a little bit questionable, especially when eventually you're going to have to pay Chet, you're going to have to pay Giddy, you're going to have to pay Jaydub. Never mind. Those players are not a part of this trade. Let me stop. I'm living in a fictional world right now. I'm living in a fictional world thinking that those dudes could be a part of the trade. They wouldn't. But if we talk about tearing it down to the boats, OKC's a team. I'm calling because they got 17 first round picks over the next four years or something like that. I would just want some draft capital. But messing around on the trade machine is one of my favorite things. Oh boy. Like what, what? Okay, so give us Dive's Bertins for money matching. Yikes. Everybody else is making no money on their team. We won Poku and Oozma Dang so we can not develop more talent here in Chicago. Financially, nope. See, yeah. How do we get there? I don't think we do. The Palakins is so, the Palakins are interesting because you see Zion's comments the other day that he's trying to buy in and so on. And the Brandon Ingram taking shots at Zion about people getting back on defense and not complaining to the referees. How do we get there? I don't, I don't know. I don't know either. I'm just saying that there are a lot of teams that might be interested in this act. I just hope that we don't lose the trait. Whatever that means. I just hope we don't lose the trait. I wonder if there's going to be like a surprise thing, like a whoa. I saw a tweet on Twitter that, because that's where tweets exist about the Detroit Pistons being interested. Zach Levin has famously scored a million points in Detroit. I don't think they would be buying with the record of two and eight, but as a team that needs some also shooting and some scoring, Zach Levin could provide that. He'd also be taking a back step as far as his aspirations to be a part of a competent championship worthy team or at least a playoff worthy team. Because that trait, a potential trait like that doesn't turn the Detroit Pistons to a playoff team like that. Like what if, I'm just thinking about teams that have big contracts. What if these Charlotte Hornets got involved? Another team that should be buying with the Gordon Haver contract. What if the Warriors got involved? Are we talking? I'm living in fictional world. I don't know. I don't know. I just, I feel like a lot of people are looking at Philly and a lot of people are looking at Miami because those are the teams that traditionally have bought players like this or have like the James Harden assets. And like that's the teams that are going to be interested in the Lakers obviously because of their history. But I would rather, no doubt, I would rather them pull off them a series, you know, them a series at a nowhere move. It's New York interesting. New York been trying to get down from, they're probably waiting on Donovan Mitchell. They're probably waiting on Donovan Mitchell. I would wait on Donovan Mitchell if I'm the New York Knicks. Because who knows what's going on in Cleveland and Donovan Mitchell. What all the rumors surrounding him and his way of loving New York. This is just bull centric. Okay, so you got this one from Shams. All of these tweets are bull centric. The Chicago Bulls might be on the verge of blowing it up. One league source told me this week the Bulls won't have the same roster in a month. Changes feel imminent. But that can mean just one move. That doesn't necessarily mean blowing it up. Shout out to Darnell Mayberry. The next one is just Patrick Williams. What's the opposite of propaganda? What's the opposite of propaganda? Don't be disrespected. Oh my God, Patrick Williams. All right. The next one is I'm told the Sixers like their depth and they like the depth they have now. And the Bulls high salary players may not fit. Perfect. Again, I'm a guy that loves the idea of the 76ers staying away from trading what they have and kind of letting it go. Or at least waiting for somebody a better fit comes and to play. And then this next one, DeMar DeRosa wants to see where the team goes before committed to a new contract with Chicago. I think that's why in this video, because I think they all should be gone.