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Arturas Karnisovas is doing his best to trade Zach Lavine. It's just not that easy.
Karnisovas (with the backing of team ownership and in mutual agreement with LaVine's camp) tried at the trade deadline last February. LaVine hoped to be sent to the Heat, 76ers, or Lakers, but the Bulls kept finding teams were more interested in Alex Caruso or DeMar DeRozan. The market for LaVine was lukewarm.
Karnisovas is back at it and has made proposals to literally half the league, reports K.C. Johnson at NBC Sports Chicago.
"Everything is on the table," Karnišovas said in April... It's why Zach LaVine's future isn't the only trade scenario that has been discussed, even if sources said Karnišovas has floated as many as 15 proposals centered on the two-time All-Star guard to various teams including the Sacramento Kings, Orlando Magic and Philadelphia 76ers.
All three of those teams make sense on some level. If the 76ers can't land Paul George as a free agent, then Lavine fits in a tier with Brandon Ingram and others to consider as a wing to fit between Tyrese Maxey and Joel Embiid. Orlando and Sacramento are both looking for attacking wings and shooting to upgrade their playoff rosters, and LaVine fits that.
However, as noted above, the market for LaVine has been tepid. LaVine has value, he is a two-time All-Star and elite isolation scorer, a career 38.2% shooter from 3 and a bucket getter who last season averaged 19.5 points and 3.9 assists, with a 57.8 true shooting percentage — all numbers that were down slightly because of a foot injury that he eventually had to have surgery on and ended his season.
That injury history and his salary have teams hesitant to pursue LaVine. LaVine is owed $138 million over the next three years (an average of $46 million a year), and that's a lot of money to pay a guy known to miss games for stretches (although he played 77 games in 2022-23 and 67 games in an All-Star season the year before that).
The Bulls reportedly "significantly" dropped the asking price for LaVine around the deadline and it will be interesting to see what kind of return they can get — but Karnisovas and the Bulls need to get something and move on. It is time to reshape this roster. Do they bring back free agent DeMar DeRozan? Re-sign Patrick Williams? Trade Alex Caruso? There are a lot of questions, but this team needs a roster shakeup and a new direction.
Trading Zach LaVine is part of that.
Daniel Weinman was crowned winner of the 2023 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event on Monday, taking home a record breaking $12.1 million in winnings. Weinman had to outlast the other 10,043 entrants to take home the prize and get his hands on his share of live poker’s largest ever prize pool – a staggering $93,399,900. As well as taking home the prize money, 35-year-old Weinman also got his hands on the WSOP Main Event bracelet. The huge bracelet contains 500 grams of 10-karat yellow gold, as well as 2,352 various precious gemstones.
Daniel Weinman won the World Series of Poker's main event world championship on Monday in Las Vegas, earning $12.1 million along the way. Playing in the tournament for a 16th year, Weinman was tops in a deep pool of 10,043 players vying for $93.39 million. His victory came after just 164 hands at the final table. "I was honestly on the fence about even coming back and playing this tournament," the 35-year-old Atlanta native told reporters afterward. Weinman's final table featured Jan-Peter Jachtmann, who landed in fourth place and took home $3 million, as well as Toby Lewis, who finished seventh and secured $1.42 million. According to the Las Vegas Review-Journal, the main event's entry pool far outpaced the previous record of 8,773 set in 2006. "I've always kind of felt that poker was kind of going in a dying direction, but to see the numbers at the World Series this year has been incredible," Weinman said. "And to win this main event, it doesn't feel real. I mean, [there's] so much luck in a poker tournament. I thought I played very well." Steven Jones finished second, securing $6.5 million. And Adam Walton settled for third and a $4 million prize.
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