Bulls financial-steward-for-life John Paxson has made some media rounds this week. Most of it was uneventful outside of some truly weird praise of Jim Boylen’s communication skills with the kids today (just don’t ask him to communicate well on TV), but this morning on 670 The Score he was directly asked about the possibility of trading for Russell Westbrook:
“There are teams that are going to take a real shot at someone like that.
When you look at the financial aspect of a player that’s 30 going out four years (on his contract) and the amount of money that’s going to be made, those things can tie your hands up and put your organization in a tough position.