Mr. S£im Citrus said:
No it wouldn't: Deng and Gordon's salaries barely make up a little more than a *quarter* of Garnett's twenty million dollar salary, and the Bulls don't have enough number-one draft picks to make up the difference.
In order to make the salaries match (which teams still need to do, unless I'm mistaken), any deal that the Bulls could do to get Garnett *has* to include Chandler and at least *three* other guys, or Chandler, two other guys *and* the #1 overall. Trades cannot be made until contracts roll over to 2006-07 (July 1st, or whenever it is), and Chandler is the only player that the Bulls currently have under contract through 2006-07 that's making even as much as $3.7M... If they wanted to keep Chandler, they would literally have to trade *their entire team* to get Garnett, as the Bulls payroll for 2006-07 currently stands at $27,292,392... Which means that, if you take out Chandler, then Garnett will make more next season *than the whole Bulls team combined*.
They are totally *not* competing in the Garnett "sweepstakes."