 What's the worry y'all? It is so weird to say it loud, but we might have seen the last minutes of Zach Levine as a Chicago Bull. As somebody that has watched him and rooted for him for the last six and a half seasons, I have conflicting feelings about this. Now, trade has not officially gone down. I don't want the people that's not in there know what they think that Zach Levine got traded, but injury updates, Zach Levine will require an additional estimated three to four weeks to treat his current right foot inflammation. Now, I'm not here to act like I think that Zach Levine doesn't have foot problems. Actually, the last game we did see of him against the Boston Celtics, he left early because his foot, I'm not saying that he's not dealing with anything, but it is a little bit interesting that this got reported 30 minutes after the Bulls won their third straight game. It feels like no coincidence that two weeks before this, Zach Levine and the Bulls had mutually thought that it was okay for them to kinda look at the trade market. So the team is rolling without him. He is a little bit disgruntled. It just makes sense to tell him chill until we get it, get you a trade without saying that publicly. I think the real talent thing will be like during this three to four week span, will he be traveling with the team? Will he be on the bench? Cause that would, I think that would tell a lot. A lot of times, obviously if somebody's about to get traded or they're dealing with a high level injury, they're not there specifically on the road and stuff. So we'll see. I mean, he has been there for the last couple of games. He's actually looked like he's been engaged on the bench as the team has been rolling. So I'm not saying he's out here rooting for the downfall of his teammates or anything, but considering where the Bulls are as an organization and where Zach Levine is as a player, I think that the Zach Levine era is over. And it just, it feels weird, man, because the Zach Levine era for his doing or not has been unsuccessful. You gotta think about it. He was one of the main trade pieces of the ultimate trade that set us back, right? We trade away Jimmy Butler with the idea of a rebuild. We get back Larry Martin and Chris Dunn and Zach Levine. So he was here year one of our rebuild and he's been here ever since then. The team as an organization has done a very poor job of putting together competent teams around him, with him being incorporated or whatever. Will the real life good portion of Zach Levine as a Chicago Bull is really like a six month span or four month span two years ago when it was him, Lonzo Ball. I ain't gotta tell you how good that team was, but the man sat here for six and a half years and basically he had one real winning season. I'm saying free Zach Levine from the situation because I think he can provide stuff for a team that can use his service. Before we dive even more into it, I wanna let you know that as of right now in this second, this new enjoy basketball drop is live. These hats, these t-shirts, we got hoodies. Very limited, the link is in the description. Now we have sold out of every single enjoy basketball drop that we've had so far. So I wanna say I appreciate y'all even before this goes live because it's been a whirlwind to come up with these designs. This is my favorite design we've done and I know I say that every single time, but that just means that we're getting better with time with our design team and everything. This gives the basketball feel as you see at the bottom says for the basketball enthusiasts around the world. 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But on through the wire, what I said in this is that I believe that first the Chicago Bulls were trying to figure out what the team could potentially look like without Zach Levine. Because all of the rumors, whether it be from Wolds or other people are saying that hey, the market for Zach Levine is not as robust as you might think. That if they trade Zach Levine, they're probably getting back something in exchange that's not necessarily equal to his actual talent. Teams aren't looking. It's a big old contract. And people are questioning whether or not Zach Levine is a winning player. So boom, let's sit down. Let's see how good we can potentially look without Zach. And currently they're on a three game win streak. Now, some of those is like we went against the Hornets without Lamello, Mark Williams and stuff. We went against the Bucks, which I thought was a quality win. And then we went against the Pelicans on the second night of a back to back without Caesar McCullum, without Trey Murphy the third. I'm not acting like this three game win streak. It's like, oh my God, they're coming to Bulls, but a three game win streak nonetheless. Two of the three games we played, some of our best basketball, we had the most amount of assists in a singular game for the season at like 32. The ball was zipping, people are locking in defensively. It is the best three game stretch of the entire Bull season so far. So boom, if we trade Zach Levine for nothing, this team at least looks competent enough to be competitive. And that was something that we wasn't doing with Zach. But also I think about it like this. Zach Levine, again, almost officially requested to try. I say almost because his representation to come out and say that the report was that the Bulls and him mutually agreed to look different ways, whatever, whatever. Part of it is like, yeah, Zach is dealing with this foot injury, but we'd rather keep him away from playing to a further the injury for him to be traded. But we also might have somewhat of a slight verbal agreement with a trade dealing around Zach Levine already. The problem is that people can't really get traded until December 15th and January 15th. So right now as you, if you look at that you're watching your clocks and your calendars, we are really, really close to December 15th. Now, if you look at these three to four weeks, it puts us eerily close to January 15th. And that is significant because I'll run it back and Sharm said, said this. Yeah, Michelle, Zach Levine, not good for the Bulls, not good for Zach Levine. He will be out another three to four weeks that he's got to treat right foot inflammation. So he's going to be ending up missing a total of at least four to five weeks with this injury. Ironically, this takes the Bulls and Zach Levine right up to January, that mid-January. Sharm's going to be the one to say that it probably is playing this way. He said ironically, I don't know if it's ironic. January 15 date when all the free agents will be eligible to be traded from last summer. So when you think about teams like the Lakers, Daniel Russell, Rui Hachimer, or those two guys will both be trade eligible come January 15th. And we know what this has been, the Lakers six. All right, we ain't got to get the rest. I do not believe that the Lakers should be trading for Zach Levine if it means Rui Hachimer and Daniel Russell. That's just my two cents. As a fan of the Bulls, I don't mind it, I guess. Like I think that as Bulls fans we have to come to the realization that whatever trade goes down, we're not going to walk away and be like, yes, we won. But getting competent role players would probably help. For the Lakers, it would be kind of like going back in the opposite direction like the year that they traded for Russell Westbrook. He's like, hey, here's a big name. Who was an all-star one-point? Let's trade away the depth that we have in order to get them. I just don't know if that's the recipe for the Lakers. I do believe there's a lot left in the tank for Zach. Like the people that question whether or not he can contribute to winning, I think it's just a little bit unfair because he's never been on a team that's been worthy enough to win anything. Right, so if you look at all, he only has five playoff games play. Okay, look at the rosters he played for. Before he was in Chicago, he's in Minnesota in the middle of their rebuild. And then he got to Chicago at the beginning of the rebuild and they were awful. Like he really only has a handful of playoff games because the Bulls just haven't been able to build a good roster. You know what I'm saying? They also had to usher him in as the one option, two option when in reality, he's probably better off as a 2.5 slash three option. Now the question is, do you want to pay somebody $40 million annually to be your 3.5 three option? Probably not. So that's what I'm saying. I don't think the trademark is going to be crazy, but when Wode said that there's no trademark, I was like, that's a less cap, you know? These same questions that people have about Zach Levain we've seen about other players and those other players ended up going to better scenarios, better organizations and say, boom, I'm here. Andrew Wiggins is a good example of this, right? Before he ended up with the goal to say worry. He's like, oh, this guy can put up a lot of points, but he don't defend, he don't rebound, he don't pass. Like is he ever going to be more than just a guy that get his own stats then he ended up with the goal to stay warriors and they empowered him to be more than that. And he was an all-star starter, you know? I think Zach Levain can be something like that. Like he's already made an all-star game, y'all. You know what I mean? I feel like we put him in a scenario where he is empowered to be the best version of himself and he buys in to be in the best version of himself. Those questions of, can he win? Is he a winner? Would just be gone. Times like this make me want to go load up the trade machine, but God is this such a hard thing trying to figure out the trades. Like the people that you would expect to maybe want to be interested, you're like, they're not trading this piece, this piece. And then the teams that have like dead pieces as far as bad contracts, empty contracts, whatever, why would they be buying? Like here are all 30 teams in the NBA, right? We gonna go yes or no if they should even be picking up the phone. No, no, probably not close to no because they're playing well again. They lost two in a row, but Orlando could use the most scoring, but I don't think they're out there trying to pay him $40 million, you know what I'm saying? 76 is still a question mark. Now there is some rumors around that, basically flipping what they got for Harden to get Zach Levine. I don't like to fit too much. The Knicks have already said they're not really interested. The Pacers know that he is a question mark as well. They already have Tyler Hero on the team, though he's not playing right now. It feels like overlapping talent. So maybe not. The Cavs know, Brooklyn Nets, I don't know what's against the Brooklyn Nets. I'm gonna say no, but you know what I'm saying? And then these rest of these teams, Atlanta Hawks know, Raptors, maybe, maybe we don't know what Massa is thinking. They could use some shooting, some scoring, but then again, Pascal Siaka might be getting moved too. So I don't really know. Charlotte, like a Gordon Haver flip will be interesting, but like, why would they do that right now? Washington know, Detroit is the most interesting one. They're an 18 game loser streak. They have to make a decision. They have to do something for the fan base. 18 straight losses. I mean, they've won a total of zero point. This is their win percentage. Like what? Hello? Anyway, then on the West, the West of confiscates like Minnesota know, okay, C know Denver know Dallas know LA, I guess maybe Sacramento probably not. Cause they need more defensive oriented pieces versus offensive oriented pieces. Sons know Pelicans know Clippers know Rockets know, like, where's this man gonna get traded? I don't know, but he will get traded. It might be a left field team. I don't really know. You let me know in the conversation. Do you believe that we've seen our last Zach Levin games of God go? Cause that's what I think. Again, enjoy basketball drop is live. 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