{"id":64698,"date":"2025-05-27T06:51:17","date_gmt":"2025-05-27T06:51:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new365.azontree.com\/?p=64698"},"modified":"2025-05-27T06:51:32","modified_gmt":"2025-05-27T06:51:32","slug":"bulls-lonzo-ball-drawing-interest-from-desperate-nba-team-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new365.azontree.com\/?p=64698","title":{"rendered":"Bulls\u2019 Lonzo Ball Drawing Interest From Desperate NBA Team: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"post-featured-container-id\">\n<div id=\"post-featured\">\n<div>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/GettyImages-2193343280-e1748277939445.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 820px) 95vw, 780px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/GettyImages-2193343280-e1748277939445.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780 780w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/GettyImages-2193343280-e1748277939445.jpg?quality=15&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1100 1100w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/GettyImages-2193343280-e1748277939445.jpg?quality=35&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1350 1350w\" alt=\"Bulls\u2019 Lonzo Ball Drawing Interest From Desperate NBA Team: Report\" width=\"780\" height=\"439\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Getty<\/p>\n<p>Lonzo Ball #2 of the Chicago Bulls celebrates a three pointer against the Washington Wizards.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Chicago Bulls point guard Lonzo Ball is drawing interest from a desperate Western Conference team.<\/p>\n<p>After a relatively successful comeback from a devastating knee injury, Ball is on the radar of the\u00a0Dallas Mavericks as their stop-gap solution to their point guard issue due to Kyrie Irving\u2018s ACL injury.<\/p>\n<p>According to NBA insider Marc Stein, Ball is a \u201cfar more reasonable\u201d trade target for the Mavericks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLeague sources say Dallas is expected to at least explore whether there are any feasible trade pathways to Boston\u2019s Jrue Holiday\u00a0\u2014 complicated as that would likely be given the three years and $104 million still left on Holiday\u2019s contract \u2014 while also maintaining an interest in a far more reasonable trade target as we\u2019ve discussed\u00a0on the DLLS Mavs podcast:\u00a0Lonzo Ball,\u201d Stein wrote on his \u201cThe Stein Line\u201d Substack newsletter on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Ball is on a much cheaper deal than Holiday, which makes him easier for the Mavericks to acquire. The 27-year-old Bulls point guard extended for $20 million over two seasons in February with a team option on the second year.<\/p>\n<p>But Ball\u2019s injury history makes him a scary option for the Mavericks. He\u00a0missed two-plus seasons recovering from a devastating knee injury. The former No. 2 overall pick had three surgeries, including a transplanted knee ligament\u00a0from a deceased donor.<\/p>\n<p>The 27-year-old Ball averaged 7.6 points, 3.4 rebounds, and 3.3 assists. He had a 50.4% effective field goal percentage while making 34% of his 3-pointers.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>It is unclear if Ball will be made available. But his team-friendly contract makes for a valuable trade chip.<\/p>\n<p>However, Ball receiving that contract after spending more than half of his four-year, $100 million deal on shelf while recovering from the persistent injury is a proof of the Bulls\u2019 strong faith in their veteran point guard.<\/p>\n<p>Ball was appreciative of Bulls\u2019 support throughout his long, arduous recovery journey, which he made it clear when he appeared\u00a0on Los Angeles Sparks star Cameron Brink\u2019s \u201cStraight to Cam\u201d podcast.<\/p>\n<p data-mm-id=\"_lx66u5chj\">\u201cIf you have a good organization that is behind you and letting you heal, that\u2019s huge,\u201d Ball said. \u201cShoutout to the Bulls for that because when I was going through it, a lot of teams could have pushed me to the side and said that was whatever. But they stuck with me through the whole way\u2026It\u2019s never going to be like a super smooth process coming back. The work that you put in as a kid and all the repetition, I think that\u2019s a pretty big thing. People who don\u2019t know how to, it\u2019s kind of like you\u2019re just going through limbo land.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2 data-mm-id=\"_lx66u5chj\">Lonzo Ball Over Tre Jones?<\/h2>\n<p>Extending Ball could come at the cost of re-signing their unrestricted free agent Tre Jones, according to \u201cPat The Designer\u201d of Locked on Bulls.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would love to have Tre Jones on this team,\u201d Pat said. \u201cI think he is literally the piece that you want to have if you\u2019re the Chicago Bulls. But, instead, you decided to re-sign Lonzo Ball for $10 million for 35 games. That\u2019s the Tre Jones spot to me\u2026It just doesn\u2019t make sense to bring him back. Unless you\u2019re just going to say \u2018We expect Lonzo to be out.\u2019 But, then it\u2019s like \u2018you shouldn\u2019t have paid Lonzo.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But if Ball is traded, it could create the pathway for Jones to return.<\/p>\n<p>There are a couple of intriguing veterans in the Mavericks roster like PJ Washington and Daniel Gafford who could become available.<\/p>\n<p>The Mavericks are expected to select Cooper Flagg as the No. 1 pick, who will dislodge Washington, who is extension-eligible, in the starting lineup. Gafford, who is seeking starter-level money, has also become expendable as the Mavericks could not afford to keep him along with their other big men Anthony Davis and Dereck Lively II.<\/p>\n<p>Ball and a draft capital might be enough for the Bulls to land either veterans from the Mavericks.<\/p>\n<p>Alder Almo is a basketball journalist covering the NBA for Heavy.com. He has more than 15 years of experience in local and international media, including broadcast, print and digital. He previously covered the Knicks for Empire Sports Media and the NBA for Off the Glass. Alder is from the Philippines and is now based in Jersey City, New Jersey. More about Alder Almo<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Explore the trade buzz around Chicago Bulls point guard Lonzo Ball, who made a successful comeback from persistent knee injuries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":64699,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Bulls\u2019 Lonzo Ball Drawing Interest From Desperate NBA Team: Report - News 365<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/new365.azontree.com\/?p=64698\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Bulls\u2019 Lonzo Ball Drawing Interest From Desperate NBA Team: Report - 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