the bulls should seriously consider pursuing rudy gay.

i know rudy's got a bad rep around the league, but chicago desparately needs scoring. their offense is horrendous, and beggars can't be choosy. rudy obv isn't melo but as a plan B, he would be a pretty nice fit. he's going to give you 20 pts every night, he's still only 27, and he was actually really good in sacramento this season (20.1 ppg, .567 TS%, 19.6 PER)

one possible scenario would involve a straight up swap of boozer and gay (both contracts expire after next season) with the bulls adding a 1st rounder as a sweetener, either one of their 2 picks in this year's draft or even sending back the future #1 that sacramento already owes them (via cleveland) from the luol deng trade. the bulls would remain over the cap, allowing them access to the full midlevel exception, which they could then offer to mirotic. they'd also have the biannual exception which could be used to resign augustin, and they'd still have one of their first round picks left to draft a scoring wing.

and gay's contract expiring in '15 allows you to roll your capspace over 1 yr and pursue love next summer.

you go into next season with a rotation of rose, noah, gibson, gay, augustin, butler, mirotic, dunleavy, greg smith, tony snell and stauskas/young/warren/hood. not as sexy as adding carmelo but not too shabby.

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