Lonzo Ball reaches 2-year-old extension of $ 20 million with bulls in the middle of trade interviews

Lonzo Ball doesn’t go anywhere yet.

Chicago Bulls reached a two-year contract extension of $ 20 million with the former No. 2 total election on Wednesday night, according to Espns Shams Charania. The deal came right in front of the trade deadline as several teams seemed to be interested in ball. However, Bulls has now locked him down through the 2026-27 season.

The 27-year-old ball was an average Bulls (20-27) this season.

A remarkable comeback story, Ball returned this season after missing 1,000 days to a series of debilitating left knee problems. At different points in his rehabilitation ball Reported Couldn’t run and even had trouble climbing the stairs. In March 2023, he underwent an unprecedented bride change.

Playing again was a minor miracle. Playing oneself able to be a potential trading asset is more remarkable.

When he is right, Ball is a unique playmaker and plus defender who developed into a 42.3% 3-point shooter to start the 2021-22 season. It was his contribution in the early part of this campaign that made Bulls think they could become a serious playoff competitor. And then he suffered the knee injury.

Bulls has made the final game just once since the signing of Ball for a four-year contract of $ 80 million in the 2021-one round exit in 2022, when he was still recovering from the first of three operations on his knee.

Ball has not appeared in an playoffs since he was chosen as second together by Los Angeles Lakers in 2017 draft – somewhere ahead of Jayson Tatum. Bulls are struggling at best for their annual entry into the play-in tournament. The current program list -construction has apparently run its course. Bulls traded Alex Caruso and Demar Derozan in the summer, and Zach Lavine was treated to Sacramento Kings earlier this week. It feels like a demolition in Chicago, but Ball will apparently be part of the team’s future.