Report: Bulls Offer First-Round Pick For Courtney Lee

February 23, 2011 8:57 AM

Courtney Lee (Photo Credit: Getty Images, By: Ezra Shaw)

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On Tuesday, the Chicago Bulls traded former first-round pick James Johnson to the Toronto Raptors for the Miami Heat’s 2011 first-round pick. Well according to a report that pick could be flipped for Courtney Lee.

Adrian Wojnarowski, of Yahoo Sports, is reporting that the Bulls have offered the to the Houston Rockets for Lee, a shooting guard.

A sticking point in the trade, according to Wojnarowski, is that the Rockets want center Omer Asik instead of the draft pick.

Lee is averaging 7.4 points, 2.5 rebounds and 1 assist per game for the Rockets, while shooting 42.5 percent from three-point range.

If a deal is to be reached between the two teams it will have to come before Thursday’s NBA trade deadline.

Report: Bulls Offer First Round Pick For Courtney Lee

WillKill

OJOJOJOJOJ Well if the Rockets want bend lets keep it moving… Asik stays!!!! Go Grab Mayo or Jackson. Please don not get Parker!!
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JG

Bulls offer pick; Rockets want Asik. Sounds like more than a “sticking point”. If the Bulls can flip the pick for Lee, then the trade was Johnson for Lee and that is quite a steal. I doubt Houston takes it.
Jake from da burbs

I’ll take Lee or Afflalo at this point as the marginal upgrade at SG. Either one fits the need of a tall shooting guard who can hit the 3 and guard decently. But wouldn’t trade any of our bigs to get him.

Bulls will probably play it conservately and not over pay (offer 2 1st round picks) because they can expect some guys to be bought out of their contracts come March 1st (Hamilton/Butler etc).
AT3374

Ok Garpax , don’t mess this up
Ralph Tresvant

I thought Lee’s numbers were better than that. Is he really that much of an upgrade?

meh.

I guess for Miami’s first round pick- which will be high 20s at worse, you could do worse.

Kwick Pittman

I agree

Kawaun Pittman

Sup Ralph T.
paulh

Omer stays right here. He has a huge upside. Very agile for a young big man. He might not be getting a lot of minutes – but he’s learning the NBA game and improving all the time. Please don’t give the big guy away.