Fourth-year Bulls point guard Kris Dunn will be a restricted free agent this summer, and after a competent defensive showing during his 2019-20 season with the club, he may be an appealing, affordable bench addition for a number of teams on the market, according to Rob Schaefer of NBC Sports Chicago. After trying to move Kris Dunn as recently as August 2019, Schaefer suggests that Dunn may be worth keeping around.
Schaefer considers Dunn potentially netting an annual price tag in the range of $8-11M this summer. Dunn’s all-defense, almost-no-offense game may make him a better fit for a contender (the Clippers are reported to have interest in adding him) than for a rebuilding team like the Bulls.
There’s more out of the Central Division:
- Sekou Doumbouya, the No. 15 pick in the 2019 NBA Draft, became a more essential piece of the Pistons rotation than they had initially anticipated due to a rash of injuries, as Pistons.com writer Keith Langlois details. The 6-foot-8 forward out of France appeared in 38 games during the abbreviated 2019-20 season for Detroit.
- Bucks All-Star wing Khris Middleton was in the midst of a spectacular year when play was paused amidst the escalating COVID-19 pandemic, according to Eric Woodyard of ESPN. Middleton had a chance to join rarified air with a potential 50/40/90 season in play. He was averaging 21.2 points per game for the 53-12 Bucks. Middleton was shooting 49.88 percent from the field, 41.8 percent from deep and 90.8 percent from the charity stripe. “I’ve never been on pace for 50/40/90,” he told Woodyard. “That’s just an elite scorer and elite shooter with those type numbers and efficiency.”
- While speaking with his former Olympic teammate Dwyane Wade on Instagram Live, Trail Blazers power forward Carmelo Anthony claims he would have won multiple NBA championships had the Pistons drafted him instead of Darko Milicic with the No. 2 pick in 2003, as Nicola Lupo of Sportando notes. Anthony, a 10-time All-Star, was drafted by the Denver Nuggets with the No. 3 pick out of Syracuse. The Pistons went to two straight NBA Finals in 2004 and 2005, winning the title in 2004.
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