Bulls to target Kevin Durant in free agency, just like everyone else
Kevin Durant is a top five NBA player when healthy, so when he becomes an unrestricted free agent at the conclusion of this season at a time when the salary cap is going to spike upwards of 30 percent, just about every team out there is going to take a crack at landing his services.
While conventional wisdom says it's a two-team race between the Thunder and the Wizards (due to Durant growing up in Washington D.C.), Sean Deveney of Sporting News reports that the Bulls are among the teams that will do their due diligence.
Bulls fans shouldn't get too excited. But in the off chance Durant does become interested in Chicago, the Bulls will be ready -- just like everyone else.
The feeling around the league has long been that when free agency comes, he will either stick with the relative peace and familiarity of Oklahoma City or return home to Washington. Big-name teams like the Lakers, Bulls and Knicks have designs on Durant, but few front-office executives guess he’d wind up in any of those markets. (There has been the lingering possibility, though, that the defending champion Warriors could get Durant’s attention.)
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“Everyone is going to be ready for him, I think everyone wants to at least be in the mix and see what happens,” one Eastern Conference general manager said. “But I think everyone knows that it is going to take a lot to get him out of OKC, and if it isn’t OKC, it’s going to be Washington. Stranger things have happened, but going into it, I think it will be down to those two places.”
