Speaker 1: Let me say something.
Speaker 2: You are drunk, completely high if you think that the
Speaker 2: Bulls are going to pay zach Lavine.
Speaker 1: A MAX contract. He is a MAX player. But riddle
Speaker 1: me this.
Speaker 2: If Jimmy Butler couldn't get the max from Chicago, how
Speaker 2: do you think that the Chicago Bulls are going to
Speaker 2: pay zach Lavine that money not even close to the
Speaker 2: same caliber of player, especially now that they're playing they're
Speaker 2: paying Derozen and they're paying a Lonzo, and they're playing
Speaker 2: paying Vouch And somehow, some way, fans in my fucking
Speaker 2: comments section think that I am the one that's insane
Speaker 2: by saying zach Lavine has either got to take less
Speaker 2: or he's got to get gone.
Speaker 1: You think they're gonna go deep into the luxury tax
Speaker 1: for zachly. I like zach Levine too.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he is a bucket, But forty million dollars for
Speaker 2: zach Lavine.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's not the guy you opened the checkbook for.
Speaker 2: Come on. Yeah, they're already floating fake rumors about zach
Speaker 2: Lavine being quote unquote open to take less. If right
Speaker 2: now this article came out very mysteriously now after they've
Speaker 2: signed to Rosen and Lonzo, that he would be open
Speaker 2: to taking less if they surrounded him with better role players,
Speaker 2: and he never said that. He's never said anything close.
Speaker 1: To that this.
Speaker 2: In fact, he said the exact opposite at the end
Speaker 2: of the season presser, and actually even in Tokyo he's.
Speaker 1: Talking about it.
Speaker 2: I let my performance on the court dictate what I
Speaker 2: get paid. I think that's what everybody wants to get paid,
Speaker 2: what they're worth. When my time comes, I'm definitely gonna
Speaker 2: get that. I think with different situations, different people taking
Speaker 2: less money or taking the max.
Speaker 1: It's a business.
Speaker 2: At the end of the day, I definitely want what
Speaker 2: I deserve, and whatever that.
Speaker 1: Is, I'll have it coming to me.
Speaker 2: Does that sound like a guy who's planning to take
Speaker 2: less money if they surround him with good role players.
Speaker 1: It does not. It does not. It does not.
Speaker 2: Here's the thing that I think fans miss. They just
Speaker 2: say a guy is worth max money. That's just a
Speaker 2: fun thing to say. He's max guy, max player, got
Speaker 2: a max mount, love him, love Zachalleean, He's a bucket
Speaker 2: max money.
Speaker 1: Max money is forty million dollars a year.
Speaker 2: Max money is over one third of your salary cap
Speaker 2: on one guy fifteen teen fifteen guys plus some and
Speaker 2: that's one guy thirty five percent of your roster.
Speaker 1: That is a commitment.
Speaker 2: That is Damian Lillard money. And I promise you I
Speaker 2: love Zach Vieen. He's not Damian Lillard even even fun
Speaker 2: close to Damian Lillard caliber player.
Speaker 1: He's probably the best debate right now. Is he a
Speaker 1: MAX guy?
Speaker 2: He is? Probably He's what Devin Booker used to be,
Speaker 2: only is not the same caliber of player as Devin Booker. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I mean I always knew Booker was going to get
Speaker 2: the MAX, but yeah, yeah, Booker's probably the most recent
Speaker 2: one like that. Yeah, And Sarvar was much more interested
Speaker 2: in keeping Devin Booker then Chicago is paying zachlab They've
Speaker 2: been very clear we had Oh yeah, he's all you had.
Speaker 2: And you have three other guys making more than twenty million,
Speaker 2: So you got sixty million plus forty million. That's nine
Speaker 2: million for like twelve guys. And you remember who owns
Speaker 2: the bulls, right, Jerry fucking Rhymes Dwarf.
Speaker 1: I do need to remind folks on TikTok who were
Speaker 1: not born when this happened.
Speaker 2: But that is the same guy who ran Michael Jordan
Speaker 2: out of Town, Michael fucking Jordan when he had at
Speaker 2: least one more title run left in him and admitted
Speaker 2: he was too cheap to keep the team together. That's
Speaker 2: the set is the same human, same guy. You think
Speaker 2: he's changed, you think he's gotten more generous over time
Speaker 2: or less. Like Scrooge wasn't a twenty five year old.
Speaker 2: Scrooge was a seventy five year old. That's the same
Speaker 2: guy who tried to build a winner on a budget
Speaker 2: for two decades and failed miserably. The same very guy
Speaker 2: that had the opportunity to max Jimmy the fuck Butler
Speaker 2: out and he was like he did not think Jimmy
Speaker 2: was worth a MAX deal. Jimmy Butler has received two
Speaker 2: Max deals since then. Two. You do not see rim
Speaker 2: checked Washington Wizard Michael Jordan ever exist if Jerry Rhines
Speaker 2: Dwarf was the owner. So forgive me if I'm a
Speaker 2: little skeptical of the bulls pang Zach Lavine, just a
Speaker 2: student of the game, student of history, trying to spit
Speaker 2: facts for the young uns.
Speaker 1: Come back to me, Come back to me. Eight months
Speaker 1: from now. We'll see