James Harden, Bradley Beal, Ben Simmons, Damian Lillard … the cautionary tales are many.
One-dimensional guards that have been given max contracts, eventually plunging their organizations into mediocrity or bad decision after bad decision to crawl out of it.
The Bulls are about to step into that threshold, looking to change that history.
With the NBA’s free agency gate bursting open at 5 p.m. on Thursday, the worst kept secret the past 10 months was the Bulls looking to offer LaVine the five-year, roughly $215 million max offer to make him the face of the franchise.