CHICAGO -- If there's one figure floating around Gar Forman's head these days, it must be $20 million. That's the amount of money under the salary cap the Bulls will have to spend next summer when the contracts of Luol Deng and Kirk Hinrich come off the books and the amnesty tag is likely used on Carlos Boozer.
Nick Friedell looks at each player on the Chicago Bulls roster and how they fit in for the future. Nazr Mohammed 2012-13 salary: $854,389,00 | Age: 35 | Season stats: 2.6 ppg, 3.1 rpg Season recap: Mohammed rarely played in the first three months of the season but managed to provide some minutes for Tom Thibodeau with some solid play down the stretch and into the postseason.
CHICAGO -- Chicago Bulls forward Luol Deng will not have surgery this summer to repair a torn ligament in his left wrist, according to a league source. Deng, who originally tore the ligament in a game on Jan.
Nick Friedell looks at each player on the Chicago Bulls roster and how they fit in for the future. Carlos Boozer 2012-13 salary: $15,000,000 | Age: 31 | Season stats: 16.2 ppg, 9.8 rpg Season recap: Boozer was solid for the Bulls throughout most of the season, averaging 16.
Nick Friedell looks at each player on the Chicago Bulls roster and how they fit in for the future. Joakim Noah 2012-13 salary: $11,300,000 | Age: 28 | Season stats: 11.9 ppg, 11.1 rpg Season recap: Noah spent the early part of the season playing about 40 minutes a night and worked his way into the first All-Star berth of his career.
Phil Jackson said Wednesday that critics of Derrick Rose should back off the Chicago Bulls star, who missed the entire 2012-13 season after undergoing ACL surgery on May 12, 2012. "Leave him alone," Jackson said on "Mike & Mike in the Morning" on ESPN Radio.
Nick Friedell looks at each player on the Chicago Bulls roster and how they fit in for the future. Taj Gibson 2012-13 salary: $2,155,811 | Age: 27 | Season stats: 8.0 ppg, 5.3 rpg Season recap: Playing without Omer Asik for the first time in two seasons, Gibson struggled to replicate his success over the first couple months of the year.
Nick Friedell looks at each player on the Chicago Bulls roster and how they fit in for the future. Jimmy Butler 2012-13 salary: $1,066,920 | Age: 23 | Season stats: 8.6 ppg, 4.0 rpg Season recap: After struggling to find a consistent place in Tom Thibodeau's rotation for the first couple months of his second season, Butler flourished toward the middle of January when Luol Deng went down with a hamstring injury.
CHICAGO -- Luol Deng has been such an integral part of the Chicago Bulls' success over the past three seasons under Tom Thibodeau that the idea of Deng playing somewhere else will make the veteran coach cringe.
Television analyst Stacey King said one thing should change next season in order to help the Chicago Bulls perform better in the postseason. "The coaching staff is going to have to dial down a little bit during the regular season," King said Thursday on "The Carmen & Jurko Show" on ESPN 1000.
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