Bulls on Parade Vol 4.- Meet Justin Holiday

By Mike Anderson
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Updated: February 20, 2016

Meet Justin Holiday

NBA Champion (yes, he is a defending champ, BTW) Justin Holiday makes his way, along with his astounding 4ppg over about 70 games or so, to the Chicago Bulls via trade. The Bulls give up fan favorite and model teammate Kirk Hinrich (again.) Moving Hinrich will serve as a luxury tax dump, and the second-round pick won’t hurt, but probably won’t help as recent second-round picks have been the names of Cameron Bairstow, Erik Murphy, Malcolm Lee, Sonny Weems, and Aaron Gray. Only Bairstow and Weems are still in the league, and Weems never played a minute for the Bulls, FWIW. But, back to the lecture at hand: Justin Holiday is the product of the Bulls hard, treacherous, demanding search for suitors during the exasperating trade deadline scramble. Welcome to the team, kid, enjoy your courtside seats, and be ready to suit up and spell Aaron Brooks as General Soreness himself will probably take a few days off knowing we have you as the new John Lucas III.

*kills self*

[Editor’s Note: Kevin – All I saw in regards to offers for Pau Gasol was that the Kings were interested and wanted to unload Ben McLemore. They may have also been interested in Snell, but if all that was on the table was swapping Tony Snell for a guy averaging one more basket a game than Snell and making a few million more to do so, I don’t blame Forman for passing on that. I do blame him for not getting something for Gasol. And as much as a rebuild may be tough to sell to the fans, especially since the Bulls are still in playoff position, I blame him for not seeing the writing on the wall that this team’s not going anywhere unless somehow everyone becomes 100% healthy, like, tomorrow and then the offense magically starts to gel. The odds of that are slim and none, and, wait… what’s that?…Okay, see ya later, slim. What Forman said after the deadline passed about the team still being contenders and Gasol still being part of the core was idiotic, but what was he supposed to say? So, I’ll cut him some slack there, unless of course, he actually believes that, in which case, he should be fired immediately. Actually, he should be fired immediately anyway, but if he actually believes what he said, then, uh, double secret fire him, I guess. And, really, firing Forman can’t be that far off. They just brought in a new coach, who was their guy, and if the players were the problem, why did Forman have his thumb up his butt at the deadline? Gee, who else could the problem have been?

One last note on “General Soreness”: lay off Derrick. The NBA season is a real grind. If he has to sit out a game here or there during the regular season, so be it. When the Bulls start to look like a team that can actually make some noise in the postseason again, they’ll need a healthy D-Rose, and now, when they aren’t that team, there’s no real reason to push himself to play one random game in February if he’s banged up.

(The portrait was funny, though. Sorry, Derrick.)]

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