After Missing Out on LeBron, Bulls Try To Move On

Published July 9, 2010 at 3:40 p.m.

The last time Bulls management found themselves in a similar situation of excess cap room after missing out on their top free agent targets, the team overspent on the likes of Ron Mercer, Brad Miller and Eddie Robinson...Bulls fans suffered through a series of sub-20 win seasons close on the heels of the Bulls' second Threepeat, as their miscalculation prevented the team from rebuilding quickly...More than a decade later, and we're still waiting for a competitive team again...Hopefully, they'll spend more wisely this time around...Having already inked Carlos Boozer to a five-year, $76 million deal on Thursday, they still have about $19 million in cap space left and a whole lot of roster spots to fill...While mostly spots on the bench, the team is now desperate for a starting shooting guard, particularly one with some outside shooting skills...But this free agent crop is light in shooting guards -- Mike Miller, Kyle Korver, J.J. Redick and Ronnie Brewer just might be the best ones available...And there aren't many assets left to trade now that all those "expiring contracts" have in fact expired...That Hinrich trade is really going to come back to bite Paxson and Forman in the ass, as they'll likely end up committing way more money, for a longer term, to an inferior player...Both executives deserve to lose their jobs over that last trade. And meanwhile, Bulls fans can expect many more seasons of (maybe) squeaking into the playoffs before making early exists at the hands of the Celtics, Magic and Heat.

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