Free Agency Begins Tonight

With the NBA’s free agency period kicking off tonight at midnight eastern time, Bulls’ guard Ben Gordon will certainly receive his fair share of calls when the clock strikes 12.  ESPN’s Chad Ford has him listed as the number one unrestricted free agent on the market this summer.  “Gordon is an explosive scorer and has one of the sweetest jump shots in the game,” Ford writes.  ”But he is undersized for a shooting guard and he doesn’t play great defense.  On virtually every team, his best position is as a high-scoring sixth man.  The question we’re about to answer is, what is the market value of a player like that?”

“Gordon will have suitors,” Ford continues.  “The Bulls want to re-sign him badly and their main competition will come from the Pistons - but as his agent learned last summer when he sought to get Gordon traded to another team via a sign-and-trade, it’s going to be tough to find a team willing to break the bank for him.”  The Pistons are definitely interested, but I’ve also heard that Oklahoma City could make a run at Gordon.  I don’t think the Bulls will pay him a ton of money, so there’s a good chance that he walks is he receives a substantial offer to play elsewhere.

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