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The current owner is allowing guests to stay at the seven-bed, 17.5-bath home for roughly $15,000 per night.
While Cooper Flagg and other lottery picks have been limited in the amount of run they get in Summer League play, the Bulls are hoping that Noa Essengue can play as many minutes as possible.
Coach Billy Donovan III was looking forward to seeing what Essengue was made of after a dismal NBA Summer League debut Friday. The rookie took some positive steps before leaving the game with a leg injury.
Weight and muscle aren’t the only improvements Buzelis has made during the offseason. His actions and words are showing up in leadership, too.
It’s a copycat league, and more and more athletic bigs are initiating offense and putting pressure on opposing defenses, Buzelis just might be the perfect player to fit that profile for Billy Donovan’s crew. Friday’s Summer League loss provided a taste of that.
Known for his humor and sideline antics, Layden coached the Jazz from 1981 to 1989 and had 277 wins, third-most in franchise history. He’s the only coach in Jazz history to be named NBA Coach of the Year, earning the honor in 1984, when he also was honored as executive of the year.
On the first day that NBA teams can make free-agent signings and roster moves official, the Bulls announced the Tre Jones re-signing and the Lonzo Ball-for-Isaac Okoro trade. But the looming question remains — will the Bulls play hardball with Giddey?
The Celtics, Knicks and Pacers have suffered big hits to the roster or coaching staff since the regular season ended, leaving an opening. Some teams have done their best to slow-play that, while others are attempting to kick the door down.
Red Panda — her real name is Rong Niu — spent 11 hours in a Minneapolis hospital. The Chinese American acrobat was heading home for treatment and recovery, which should take a few months.
The four-year, $285 million extension would give him the highest single-season average salary in NBA history.
With the free-agent negotiating period opening Monday night, the Bulls wasted little time re-signing Jones.
This draft didn’t have the expected wildness on the trade front, especially in the first round, but there were still those who came out of it feeling good about themselves. Only one team, however, felt “Flagg-ed.”
The Pacers are the model the Bulls are chasing, and they a took a step in that direction Saturday, trading oft-injured guard Lonzo Ball to the Cavaliers for defensive-minded forward Isaac Okoro.
Soon Noa Essengue, 18, is going to slide himself into a Bulls uniform, all 6-9, 198 pounds of him. He’ll look confident as well as lost. We’ll look at him with empathy and sympathy.
Also in this week’s “Polling Place,” we asked which team will win a playoff series first — the Bulls, Blackhawks, Sky or White Sox.
General manager Marc Eversley said the Bulls would look to do something with their second-round pick, and they did Thursday. They moved back 10 spots and added cash considerations along the way.
Both the network and team told the Sun-Times the Bulls had nothing to do with the episode’s removal.
National observers give the Bulls a grade of “B” overall for taking the French project.
The 18-year-old is raw but has a lot of skills and athleticism, especially defensively. Essengue played in Germany last season.
It’s the highest a local player has been picked since Young’s Jahlil Okafor was drafted third by the 76ers in 2015.