When the free agent period began for the Bulls guard late last month, he and his agent Rich Paul admittedly did their “due diligence’’ on the landscape, but a formal sit-down with Portland or Detroit?
Not LaVine’s way of doing business.
“I went into the offseason with an open mind,’’ LaVine explained on Monday, when discussing his recently signed five-year, $215 million max contract. “Once I was able to meet with [Bulls general manager] Marc [Eversley] and [executive vice president of basketball operations] AK [Arturas Karnisovas], and they came to me with everything that I wanted, there was no other reason for me to go outside and look at any other teams.