No. 1 reason DeMar DeRozan will regret his decision: He won’t be playing for a championship
DeMar DeRozan signed a three-year deal with the Chicago Bulls. I don’t even know if the Bulls are going to be able to have a championship-caliber team at the end of that time frame.
If DeRozan signed with the Clippers, he’d be on a championship-caliber team right away. He’d be on a team that battled an unfair amount of injuries all year, but still took the Suns to six games in the Western Conference Finals without their franchise player.
DeRozan now goes to the Chicago Bulls, who haven’t even made the playoffs since their first-round exit in the 2016-2017 season. They couldn’t even make an Eastern Conference play-in game.
The Bulls won’t be contending for a championship this year, and it’s going to take a big change for them to be contending within three years.
DeRozan said he wanted to take less money to win a championship, and then literally did the opposite.
“I’ve been fortunate enough to make a lot of money, but at this point the ultimate goal is to compete for a championship.”
— Top Ball Coverage (@TopBallCoverage) July 26, 2021
- Demar Derozan on his free agency
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DeMar DeRozan seems like a really good guy, so I wish him the best in Chicago.
Unfortunately, however, he objectively set himself up to have a much lesser chance at achieving his goal of winning a title.