AUGUST 10: The Bulls have officially signed Caruso, according to the transactions log at NBA.com.
AUGUST 2: The Bulls have agreed to a four-year, $37MM deal with free agent guard Alex Caruso agent Greg Lawrence tells Adrian Wojnarowski of ESPN (Twitter link). Based on the terms of the agreement, it sounds like the team will use most of its mid-level exception on Caruso.
The unrestricted Lakers free agent will provide a defensive presence in Chicago’s restructured backcourt.
The Bulls agreed to a sign-and-trade with the Pelicans to acquire starting point guard Lonzo Ball and Caruso will likely be the primary backup, though he could also get some minutes at shooting guard. He has made 37.7% of his 3-point attempts during his career.
Caruso has been a rotation player for much of the last two seasons. He averaged 6.4 PPG, 2.9 RPG, 2.8 APG and 1.1 SPG in 21.0 MPG this past season.
As a laker fan……god dam**t
Largely overrated player. The guy became a meme because of the bald head and outperformed expectations. Shit can’t shoot well and not a great ball handler. His calling card is playing defense which isn’t worth 8/9 million a season. Goodluck to Caruso
The bulls are desperate for guards who can play defense, so while I’m surprised we signed him, all he does is take less money than felicio and arcidiacono to be a better player for the team, it’s literally impossible to be less impactful nba players than felicio and arch
Sure a bad shooter with 40% last year on 3 point shots and 37% career wise
He just by ot bored carrying leWhine
lakers thing they got their alex replacement in mcclung, not this year but in a couple maybe?
More guards? Ooookay
Congratulations Alex!!!! Always be loved out here, best wishes
Your getting a good 25 mins a night Chi
Good for Alex already got his ring and now taking care of himself and family.
wasn’t expecting that
coby & lauri for demar
Spurs collecting injured player anyway so why not
They should move both now.
Lakers are going to miss him a lot. He always played above his talent level with high energy. I am surprised they didn’t match the contract.
They can’t if he just normal free agent and not RFA
Yes RFA so would have to be a Sign and Trade.
Not as much as you think, can’t score and isn’t a good ball handler. Lakers want shooters something alex is not
Dude is an above average 3PT shooter lol
These guys are rediculas, he shot the 3 at 40% this past season. The whole website is liked to basketball stats on these guys, how can y’all be this lazy to not look up the stats before spewing out your bad takes.
coby white done in Chicago?
Coby White is really a 2 guard
And he is injured
9 mil/yr for Alex Caruso? I guess someone had to be the new bad Felicio contract
and bad commenter. You win!
Slow unathletic limited will be exposed on a poor team when given minutes. Overpaid
You apparently judge a player’s athleticism by their skin color. Caruso is not a really skilled player but he is not unathletic. Ask any Laker fan about that.
Calling Caruso unathletic means you clearly are being racist and don’t watch basketball..
Love this signing for the Bulls, maybe it is a bit high, but I love his ability in transition, defense, and ability to be another ball-handler..
He can be somewhat of a streaky shooter, but slashes well to the basket, so I trust Donovan to use him, Ball, White, and LaVine correctly
@bravesfan88 he’s not a good ball handler. Watched enough games to know, way to turnover prone. He’s good at 1 thing and that is defense.
He shoots the 3 at 40% last season, that’s elite in the NBA… HE’S GOOD AT ONE THANG.. He is a solid slasher, high level defensive player, good 3 point shooter
6-3 or 6-4 and that putback slam dunk in traffic a year or two ago when LeBron went nuts.., yeah pretty athletic. I’m 6-3 and couldn’t dream of doing that…
his energy is important too
It is possible to dislike a white player and NOT be racist. Just sayin’.
It’s not racist to dislike a white player (I personally did not say that). But it is ignorant and mentally lazy to just assume a white guy is slow and not athletic. Just as it is ignorant to assume every black guy is super athletic. Anyone who follows the NBA and has watched Caruso knows he is athletic and it is part of what makes him a good defensive player.
You know what that means…Matthew Dellavedova to the Lakers
Nice for Alex. I’ll never hate on players getting paid. He’s a solid rotation guy. He’s better than you think and always comes to play. He’s good for Bulls.
Dang you have an actual good take. Or you just trying to justify the Knicks paying 10 mil a year for Burks? I am confused.
Why you being toxic Cobi?
I guess the Bulls never watched tape of Matthew Dellavadova playing with LeBron and Cleveland vs. Dellavadova making $11 million per year without LeBron in Milwaukee. The Alex Caruso signing is the same deal. Like LeBron said after Milwaukee signed Delly. “I am happy for him and his family” …. LeBron knew he just got a dude paid big who probably shouldn’t have even been in the league.
The mid level exception isn’t exactly big money. He shoots the 3 and plays D it’s really not a bad value.
As has been said here before, Caruso is very similar to Tyler Johnson. He is a really good defender, can catch and shoot, and makes plays. He did those things before Lebron was there. Those guys get paid about that amount in this salary cap climate
Overpay in my Bulls fan opinion, but as long as LeBron doesn’t win and gets hammered by opponents I’ll be happy. I wish he had to play the early 90’s Pistons to whip his cry baby @55!
They made a concerted effort to upgrade defensively at the guard spot, and retain spacing losing Satoransky. They need a backup big that can defend pick and roll and protect the rim, and probably one more defensive guy on the wing. Hopefully Troy Brown can provide defense there for them, and Denzel Valentine finds a little more of what he somewhat lost on that end at times, and I think they could be much improved with the full season of Vucevic there, and those things can all mitigate the minuses of Lavine
Their bench was really strong last year at times, mostly before the trade. Will be interested to see how that rotation looks together
I’m in the minority, but I don’t like either of these moves by the Bulls. As a fan, I’ll have hard time rooting for Ball and Caruso.