Dwyane Wade reportedly has filed the paperwork to be a member of the Chicago Bulls next year. In fact, he opted into his $24 million player option well before Thursday.
There’s no backing out of it now for Wade, and that’s probably the way the guard wants it.
When Wade signed up for another year in Chicago, he did so because of the big money, but he also did it at a time when the Bulls had Jimmy Butler.
That, of course, is no longer the case — Butler was traded to the Minnesota Timberwolves Thursday for what appeared to be nickels and dimes to Butler’s dollar.