The Chicago Bulls have been trying for more than a year to trade Zach LaVine, with no luck. Other teams see him as an expensive floor raiser, a player making $138 million across the next three seasons who can put up points in isolation but is injury-prone (25 games last season) and doesn’t do the little things that contribute to high-level team success (such as defend).

LaVine finished with 28 points (9-12 FG, 6-6 3Pt, 4-4 FT), four assists and two steals across 22 minutes in Saturday's 124-121 preseason loss to the Grizzlies. LaVine was deadly from beyond the arc and was extremely efficient as a scorer,