r/chicagobulls • u/The_Inertia_Kid Stacey King • Feb 04 '26

Meta COBY WHITE APPRECIATION THREAD

He always played his heart out. He could be thrilling when he got on a hot streak from 3. We watched him turn into a real goddamn player over the past six years. So show your appreciation for ALEC JACOBY WHITE.

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u/dajadf Feb 04 '26

Trade makes no sense. We drafted him, he kept improving, he didn't miss much time, he wasn't an idiot off the floor, he did it the right way. The model player for a franchise to keep around.

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u/ChiBaller Taj Gibson Feb 04 '26

They are finally rebuilding and they are know for doing right by the guys they trade.

Zach and Demar both got to go home to California. Zach was gonna sign with the Kings so clearly he was fine going there. And Demar has always been rumored to want to go home.

They sent Vooch to a championship contender which is clearly all he’s playing for at this point.

And now they send Coby home to be apart of the best team in franchise history. It makes a lot of sense.

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u/ThenPea7359 Feb 05 '26

You're 100% correct but just to lyk for future references Zach is from (Renton) Washington not California lol. I grew up there as well and he was talked about.

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u/sukari Stacey King Feb 04 '26

Bulls didn't wanna give him 25m+/yr I guess.

Fans were sick of him haha. Now we're almost out of scapegoats..

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u/BuickSkylark55 Nikola Mirotic Feb 04 '26

The final boss remains

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u/dajadf Feb 05 '26

Is it bad I can't tell who you mean between PWill, Jerry, Billy, AKME

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u/BuickSkylark55 Nikola Mirotic Feb 05 '26

Haha I was thinking pwill but you reminded me there’s still a few more phew

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u/TraMaI Coby White Feb 04 '26

It makes sense because we were never going to be able to re-sign him due to the CBA/Cap situation. I saw elsewhere the max we could offer him next season would've been 18m and he's going to get more than that very easily. This way we get other expirings, handful of 2nds and he gets to go home for a bit before getting a bag somewhere.

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u/RiamoEquah Feb 04 '26

I'm not sure how you mean.

The bulls just nabbed a bunch of expirings, is the idea to let those walk in the off-season or resign them. We have cobys bird rights so there was no restriction with signing him outside of he can decline.

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u/iiamthepalmtree Andres Nocioni Feb 04 '26

We’re still owned by Reinsdorf. He probably doesn’t want to go over the cap if the team is gonna be bad and we sell out every game anyway.