{"id":126258,"date":"2025-09-07T20:32:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T20:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/126258\/"},"modified":"2025-09-07T20:32:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T20:32:08","slug":"josh-giddey-saga-has-painfully-obvious-solution-for-the-bulls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/126258\/","title":{"rendered":"Josh Giddey saga has painfully obvious solution for the Bulls"},"content":{"rendered":"

Only one of the four marquee restricted free agent dominoes has fallen thus far. That’d be Brooklyn Nets’ guard Cam Thomas, who signed his one-year, $6 million qualifying offer, ultimately betting on himself instead of accepting one of Brooklyn’s reported short-term offers.<\/a><\/p>\n

As a result, the prevailing thought is that Josh Giddey could take the same path,<\/a> signing his $11.1 million qualifying offer instead of settling for an unwelcome contract offer. However, Giddey signing the qualifying offer isn’t in the best interest of either party.<\/p>\n

The 22-year-old guard has made it clear he wants to stay in Chicago, expressing his desire for a long-term deal with the Bulls. Even so, Chicago has balked at Giddey\u2019s request for roughly $30 million per season, mindful of the leverage they hold in restricted free agency after brazenly re-signing Patrick Williams to a $90 million contract a year prior.<\/p>\n

Still, that doesn’t rule out the Bulls and Giddey coming to a compromise. Most recently, it’s been reported that Chicago has upped its offer<\/a> to four years and $88 million. That’s an $8 million increase from the Bulls’ reported four-year, $80 million pact to kick off the offseason.<\/p>\n

A $26 million compromise is the best-case scenario for all parties<\/p>\n

Of course, $22 million still isn’t anywhere in the ballpark of Giddey’s $30 million asking price. Chicago and the 6-foot-8 floor general remain a ways apart. Though there could very well be another compromise on the horizon.<\/p>\n

Some quick math points to $26 million as the midpoint between $22 and $30 million. It’s a totally fair compromise for both parties. Giddey doesn’t receive the $30 million he’s been hankering for, but a four-year, $104 million contract isn’t too shabby, especially for a 22-year-old set to enter free agency again by 26 years old (if he were to sign the proposed deal).<\/p>\n

On the other hand, Chicago keeps a rising floor general at a rate below the going market price for starting point guards. A $26 million per annum salary would rank Giddey 20th amongst point guards, notably less than Dejounte Murray, Immanuel Quickley, and Jalen Suggs.<\/p>\n

Lastly, the Bulls gave up All-NBA Defensive selection Alex Caruso to acquire Giddey\u2014he wasn’t merely brought to town in exchange for pennies on the dollar. While the Bulls shouldn\u2019t feel obligated<\/a> to re-sign Giddey just because of who they gave up to get him, that reality remains part of the equation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Only one of the four marquee restricted free agent dominoes has fallen thus far. That’d be Brooklyn Nets’…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":126259,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-126258","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126258\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}