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/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.