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Gordon, Deng In Line For Extensions
The deadline to get contract extensions done is Oct. 31, the day the Bulls open the regular season at New Jersey. Gordon and Deng -- the team's top scorers, respectively -- are most likely looking for more than the $47.5 million, five-year extension that the Bulls agreed to give Kirk Hinrich on deadline day last year. ''We've talked,'' general manager John Paxson said. ''But if something doesn't get done, it will speak more to the fact that those two kids have such great confidence in themselves that they'll expect to go out and have a terrific year. Which is great for us and for them. We are not going to lose them.'' Read the Full Story Discuss Send Feedback Buy Tickets Bulls Passed On KG Because Of Extension Price?
But Garnett, who was being paid $22 million a season, refused the suggestion of Taylor that KG take a cut in salary, so the decision was made to make the trade. Taylor said that the Chicago Bulls were interested in Garnett but not at the salary he demanded. Chicago Bulls, Minnesota Timberwolves, Boston Celtics Read the Full Story Discuss Send Feedback Buy Tickets Rodman Investigated For Incident At BarDennis Rodman could be in trouble yet again - this time for allegedly slapping a woman's behind. The retired hoops star is under investigation after the woman accused him of whacking her behind in a bar near his home in Newport Beach, Calif., gossip Web site TMZ.com reported yesterday. The Orange County sheriff's office is probing the incident, in which one source told the Web site that Rodman hit the woman so hard, he left a "major mark." "A police report was taken and is currently with the sex crime unit," Jim Amormino, a spokesman for the Orange County sheriff, told TMZ. Read the Full Story Discuss Send Feedback Buy Tickets Bulls Sep 2007 Archive
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The Bulls hope to come to terms on contract extensions for Ben Gordon and Luol Deng before the season starts, but with training camp starting Monday, nothing is imminent.
Glen Taylor, owner of the Wolves, said that the Kevin Garnett trade might have never developed had Garnett not come to Kevin McHale last spring and asked for a three-year contract extension.