7:33PM: Yahoo! Sports columnist Marc J. Spears reports that several teams are interested in Lee's services, including the Bulls, Pacers, Wizards, Mavericks, and Clippers.
6:56PM: The Rockets have withdrawn their qualifying offer to shooting guard Courtney Lee, making him an unrestricted free agent, tweets ESPN.com's Marc Stein. The team previously had the right to match any offers for Lee's services.
Lee will now be able to sign with any team of his choosing, and several organizations, such as the Clippers (who have shown a recent interest in Ray Allen and Jamal Crawford) will most likely make an inquiry. The Rockets made the move as a strategy to keep their eye on their future cap situation, but still have Lee's Bird rights, tweets the Houston Chronicle's Jonathan Feigen.
Had Lee accepted Houston's qualifying offer, it could have affected the team's offer sheets to Omer Asik and Jeremy Lin, tweets ESPN.com's John Hollinger.
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Kahn, sign this bro asap
I completely and fully agree with you Joe. If the plan was to sign Roy and Shevd, then I would rather have Lee than both.
yeah, Lee is much more of a “sure thing’ than Roy. Been wanting the Wolves to target him for awhile, now here is our chance.
Cmon Bulls lets get Courtney Lee
I think bulls should sign Chris Douglas Roberts instead.
Bulls should work on Sign and trading Asik for Lee
Why…when they can just…you know…sign him.
it would have been a smaller contract for both lee and asik . bulls need cap so less teams would offer less to lee if he stayed restricted . and so the rockets wouldn’t have to offer a freaking 25 mill contract to him its a win win for both teams smaller contract for both players i dont think bulls would be able get him cuz cap once ray allen gone it all going be on lee
Asik has to accept the S&T as well, which he obviously wouldn’t agree to because he would lose all that money. A S&T with Asik is highly unlikely for the Bulls.
Bulls need to get Courtney Lee, Jordan Hill, Kirk Hinrich, and MAYBE Brandon Roy.
Bulls Lineup.
PG- Rose, Hinrich, Teague
SG- Hamilton, ?Roy?, Korver
SF- Deng, Lee, Butler
PF- Boozer, Gibson
C- Noah, Hill
Lee is a guard, bulls should have went after micheal Beezly to play sf for deng during his injury and lee for sg defense
Instead of Hill they should go for Steven Hawes. Way more productive then Jordan hill
That’s a great lineup but if we do get Roy he should be the one to start he’s a beast…
bulls need somebody! doesnt seem like they are going for anyone
they like to keep quiet about their decisions
ya i know, buty ive been a bulls fan forever and except for rose, the decisions have been shit!
This is a better lineup:
PG- Rose, Hinrich, Teague
SG- Hamilton, Lee, Korver
SF- Deng, Butler
PF- Boozer, Gibson
C- Noah, Hill
we should look at Ilysalova if we lose Asik. I like that much more than Hill.
Who is hill?
Jordan Hill is the backup center if the Los Angeles Lakers.
what about Rockets – dumping both their proven , high-quality Point Guards – Goren Dragic and Lowery for $$$ then dropping pricy poison pills on relatively unproven players like Lin (and Asik) – D Morely GM ? What are you thinking ??????-
Bulls need to shop for Courtney Lee,Lou Williams & Jordan Hill let go of watson & jl3 let rose,williams & teague takeover point hamilton,lee & brewer sg korver deng & butler sf boozer & gibson pf & let noah & hill C we’ll have a good team let williams & lee switch at times during the game playing pg & sg
is it me or does John paxson SUCK…