Zach LaVine has agreed to an offer sheet with the Sacramento Kings, and he may not want the Chicago Bulls to bother matching it.
The dynamic guard signed a four-year, $80 million offer sheet with the Kings on Friday, according to Shams Charania of Yahoo! Sports.
RFA Zach LaVine has agreed to a four-year, $80M offer sheet with the Sacramento Kings, league sources tell Yahoo. The Chicago Bulls have 48 hours to match.
— Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) July 6, 2018
Shortly after news of the agreement broke, LaVine threw some shade at the Bulls in an interview with Marc J. Spears of The Undefeated.
“I’m disappointed that I had to get an offer sheet from another team,” said LaVine. “But Sacramento stepped up and made a strong impression. It appears that Sacramento wants me more than Chicago.”
This offseason has been absolutely frigid so far for restricted free agents — LaVine is actually the very first one to land an offer sheet. But as a bouncy 23-year-old who averaged 16.7 points in just 27.3 minutes per game last season (albeit after tearing his ACL in February of 2017), the former UCLA star was justified in expecting a big payday, and now the Kings have given it to him.
LaVine has already been traded once in his young NBA career, and for the Bulls to let another team sign him to an offer sheet has to be frustrating, especially for a player who does not like being disrespected.
