Luol Deng NBA Rumors

Luol Deng


Luol Deng   Team: Chicago Bulls
# 9
Position: GF
College: Duke
Height: 6-9
Weight: 220 Lbs
Born: April 16, 1985

10/22/2008

Rookie Derrick Rose scored 30 points, including the go ahead basket with 41.5 seconds left, and the Chicago Bulls rallied from a 23 point deficit to beat the Mavericks 109-105 Tuesday night. Luol Deng and Andres Nocioni added 14 points each for the Bulls (2-4). Rose, the 1st overall pick in the draft, went 13 for 18 from the field and had 7 assists.

 

09/19/2008

After more than 2 months of negotiations, and more than a month after Luol Deng was re-signed, it does not appear the Bulls are any closer to reaching a deal with restricted free agent Ben Gordon than they were in July.

 

09/18/2008

After more than 2 months of negotiations, and more than a month after Luol Deng re-signed, it does not appear the Bulls are any closer to reaching a deal with restricted free agent Ben Gordon than they were in July.

 

08/05/2008

The Cavaliers tried to work a sign and trade with Chicago for Luol Deng, however the Bulls decided to keep him to the tune of $71 million over 6 years. They'd rather have Deng (both the Cavaliers and Bulls) than restricted free agent Ben Gordon, who would like a Deng-type deal.

 

08/02/2008

According to a league source, the Bulls have interest in Brad Miller (and lots of others) and are shopping forward Andres Nocioni (four years, $29 million left with team option for the 2012-13 at $7.5 million) and point guard Kirk Hinrich (five seasons left for combined $44.5 million). They appear very motivated to do a deal of some kind now that the Luol Deng situation was resolved.

 

08/02/2008

The Chicago Bulls drafted their point guard of the future last month and now they have locked up their best player, signing versatile forward Luol Deng to a long term extension. "Obviously we are incredibly happy to get Luol signed", GM John Paxson mentioned at a news conference Thursday announcing the 6 year contract.

 

08/01/2008

e use our Rumors Form to send us your NBA Rumors The Chicago Bulls drafted their point guard of the future last month and now they have locked up their best player, signing versatile forward Luol Deng to a long term extension. "Obviously we are incredibly happy to get Luol signed", GM John Paxson mentioned at a news conference Thursday announcing the 6 year contract.

 

07/31/2008

GM John Paxson will confirm Wednesday that the Bulls have reached agreement on a 6 year deal with restricted free agent Luol Deng. The deal is worth a guaranteed $71 million, as stated by sources. Incentives would push the contract's value to $80 million, sources said.

 

07/26/2008

The Bulls and Luol Deng's representative continue to negotiate and occasionally make progress toward a long term extension, which is noteworthy thinking about this, Deng would have been Josh Childress.

 

07/23/2008

If the Bulls would like to sign Luol Deng to a contract extension, they have weeks, not months, to do so. Though the official deadline to reached an extension is not until October 31, Deng's camp has made clear to the Bulls that negotiations will not continue past the forward's early-August commitment to Britain's national team.