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On paper, it works.
The Bulls send Zach LaVine to the Nets and get back Ben Simmons in the last year of his deal. One headache traded for another.
But then reality hits.
The Nets can’t wait to shed Simmons’ contract at the end of the season and also are rumored to be putting Cameron Johnson, Bojan Bogdanovic and Dorian Finney-Smith on the block as they try to strip down and become the front-runners in the Cooper Flagg lottery sweepstakes.