Vincent Goodwill is optimistic about Zach LaVine's trade value if Bulls show patience

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00:00He hosts the Good Word podcast, he is Vinny Goodwill of Yahoo Sports.

00:04We know it won't be much, we know they want to do it.

00:07What is the most the Bulls could hope to get for Zach LaVine?

00:13I wonder and I think about that.

00:16Maybe you can get a first, and it won't be a first round pick this coming year, right?

00:22Because everybody wants to get into this draft.

00:25And I'm sure the Bulls fans would love to look at it and say, you know what, we're going

00:28to have our first, plus the first we get from whatever team we send Zach to, but I just

00:32don't think that is realistic.

00:34I think even when you think back to the Kyrie Irving trade from Cleveland, I'm going way

00:38in the way back to Shane, Cleveland's first pick when they got in that deal was a trade

00:46they made with the Clippers, and the Clippers ping pong balls gave the Cleveland Cavaliers

00:52the number one pick in 2011.

00:54It wasn't their pick.

00:56Their pick wound up going outside of the top three, which netted them Tristan Thompson.

01:00So I think you want to give yourselves as a franchise as many opportunities as possible

01:07to get one of these franchise changing players.

01:09You think an unprotected first round pick from a not great team is possible, though

01:15even if it's 26 or 27?

01:17You think that's possible?

01:18Yeah, I think that's possible.

01:19I do think that's possible because I think at a point, and I know Chicago might have

01:23Zach Levine fatigued to some degree.

01:26At some point, some team will look at him and say, oh, that's not a contract, that's

01:30a player.

01:31And I think we're at the point now where we're firmly in the point of, oh, Zach Levine is

01:36a contract with a guy who's had health issues, and maybe he doesn't get along with his coach,

01:41and you're missing all the efficiency that's there.

01:43You're missing the fact that if he's your third best player, and you're asking him to

01:48score and defend on the ball, that you've got something really, really critical and

01:53really, really good here.

01:54I think the NBA makes this mistake in teams that follow a copycat.

01:58They don't look at the player as a basketball player, they look at him as a spot on the

02:02salary cap.

02:03And I think Zach has unfortunately been caught in that, and maybe some reputation stuff.