July 5, 200422 yr Crawford draws interest E-mail this story Printer-friendly format Search archives More Headlines -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- What the heck: Bulls contact Kobe View from a Bulls Fan Bulls will 'role' dice on market Free-agent hunt a guessing game Crawford derby coming -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Buy Bulls gear at the ChicagoSports.com Store. Ads by Google Chicago Bulls Merchandise Find What You Want In Stock & Ready To Ship - Prompt Service www.DicksSportingGoods.com SportsMerchant.com Licensed sports merchandise from the NFL NBA NCAA NHL MLB NASCAR www.sportsmerchant.com Bulls NBA Merchandise Low prices. Large selection of NBA officially licensed products www.sportsfanfare.com/chi-bulls.htm United Center Tickets Licensed Broker selling tickets to all United Center events. www.ticketsolutions.com Chicago bulls merchandise Buy all your NBA gear here! Fast easy shipping. www.mvp.com By K.C. Johnson Tribune staff reporter July 4, 2004 Eight teams have made serious inquiries about Jamal Crawford, with Minnesota, Miami, Sacramento and New York discussing parameters of sign-and-trade possibilities with the Bulls, league sources said. As is the case with many restricted free agents, the player's camp wants his employer to set the market. Typically, the employer, in this case the Bulls, wants the market to set itself. It did Friday, to some degree, when Dallas agreed to a six-year, $38 million contract with second-year guard Marquis Daniels. That deal only reinforced the perception that Crawford won't sign for the midlevel exception, which approximately would equal Daniels' pact. That preliminary discussions on sign-and-trade possibilities have taken place with the aforementioned teams?which are all above the salary cap?indicates a willingness to pay Crawford more than the midlevel exception. But the Bulls, league sources said, would be willing only to entertain such a scenario if they were able to unload an undesirable contract, such as those belonging to Eddie Robinson or Jerome Williams. Looking at other teams' salary structures, Minnesota wouldn't have much to offer besides Wally Szczerbiak, whose contract doesn't make sense for the Bulls. Sacramento, too, has little that works for Chicago. Only Miami and New York have assets and expiring contracts that make sense. But it's unlikely the Heat would send, say, Caron Butler and Eddie Jones to the Bulls for Williams and a long-term deal for Crawford. With little discussion on a long-term deal, Crawford may take some visits to teams this week. Still, the Bulls, who own Crawford's rights and?by the virtue of a $3.5 million qualifying offer?the ability to match any offer sheet tendered, remain in the driver's seat.
July 5, 200422 yr miami is stupid if they pursue crawford. the team they have now is perfect, all they have to do is develop and play with each other a bit more. wade, jones, caron butler, odom, haslem, grant. they'll be fine.
July 5, 200422 yr Crawford is gonna be star if he leaves Chicago just like Elton Brand, Brad Miller, and Ron Artest.
July 5, 200422 yr well they should dish crawford and try to get someone decent in the front court! ben gordon & hinrich will be fine in the backcourt.
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