Chicago Bulls Receive: F Gordon Hayward, C Mason Plumlee, 2024 First-Round Pick (Lottery Protected – CHA)
Charlotte Hornets Receive: C Nikola Vucevic, F Derrick Jones Jr. G Coby White
On the other hand, there are degrees of stardom as well.
The league’s top 5 to 10 players will be starts in any context. Those are the players a general manager conceptualizes their team around. Here, we’re talking about the types of players that you’ve heard of, even if you don’t follow basketball.
The league’s bar for stardom is a little bit lower than that.
Still, some players are capable of making star contributions, but they need the right situation in order to do so. Take Nikola Vucevic. For years, he was an All-Star regular for the Orlando Magic.
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With that said, during 2021-22, his first full season with the Chicago Bulls, he fell a bit short of that standard.
It may have been that he was a suboptimal fit alongside fellow stars Zach LaVine and DeMar DeRozan. Would he look better in Charlotte alongside LaMelo Ball?