Ben Gordon doesn't think he'll play for the Bulls again
The long-standing negotiations between Ben Gordon and the Chicago Bulls seem to have ended, when Ben Gordon said on Friday that he doesn’t see himself playing for the Bulls in the upcoming 2008-09 NBA season, saying,
I guess it’s safe to say I’ve played my last game in a Bulls uniform.
Gordon said that his agent has been talking with other teams about a possible sign-and-trade, saying,
I’m pretty optimistic it’ll happen. It’s very likely.
Gordon’s agent has also said that playing in Europe is a possibility, but the only certainty is that Gordon won’t sign the Bulls one-year qualifying offer of $6.4 million. Gordon has also said that because of the slow pace of negotiations that he feels he’s being stiffed, and with a logjam in the backcourt, he feels going somewhere else is best, saying
“It’s a numbers game. Last season at the trade deadline, they brought in more guards and I saw my minutes drop and didn’t understand why. This year, the problem’s still the same. I don’t see it getting better, so maybe it’ll be a better situation for me personally somewhere else.
After turning down a 5-year, $50 million contract last year, Gordon feels that he should be the team’s highest paid player because he’s the leading scorer. If the Bulls were to comply, they would have to top the 6 year, $71 million contract they recently gave to Loul Deng, which will never happen as long as Jerry Reinsdorf is running the show, as it would put the Bulls over the luxury tax limit, and JR has said he won’t pay the luxury tax for a team that isn’t a title contender. (Like he’d pay it for a title contender, but I digress)
Who the hell is Ben Gordon to want to be the team’s highest paid player!? He’s not a superstar worthy of that kind of money. He doesn’t play any defense. He clanks a lot of shots. And so what if he’s the team’s leading scorer. He doesn’t even average 20 points a game. What good is that? Why do you think you’re better than Monta Ellis, who recently got a 6 year, $67M contract from the Golden State Warriors? You’re not. Being the leading scorer on a crappy team is like winning 10 cents in the lottery. Congratulations. Would you like a cookie? Ben Gordon can go rot in hell for all I care. He is a useless scumbag and he sucks.