Gordon Ready to Sign Qualifying Offer

After a summer-long saga, Bulls restricted free agent Ben Gordon is expected to sign the one-year qualifying offer he received from the team this offseason.  The deal is worth approximately $6.4 million and will allow Gordon to become an unrestricted free agent next summer.  The team reportedly offered Gordon a six-year deal worth around $50 million earlier this offseason, but Gordon thought he was worth franchise player money.  After the Bulls signed Luol Deng to that sort of deal and were unwilling to award Gordon with a similar contract, negotiations seemed to stall between the two sides.

This blogger thinks that the Bulls have been nothing but fair to Gordon and he has been responsible for the contract stalemate this summer.  Last summer, the Bulls offered Gordon a five-year contract in the same financial range as the six-year deal they offered the shooting guard this offseason, but he rejected that as well.  Gordon apparently thinks he’s the best player on the team, though the organization doesn’t appear to agree.  Gordon’s one-dimensional offensive game, size limitations for his position and inconsistency have given the Bulls pause in offering him a huge deal, and for good reason.  There is a chance that Gordon has received the two largest contract offers of his career, and he’s rejected them both.

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