Ep 267: Stacey on Jaden Ivey getting waived, Adam Silver blessing the Bulls, and Buzelis confidence

Well, I mean, you know, it is what it is.

I mean, they're going to go out and compete.

They're going to play hard.

You know, they did a good job for about a half last night against San Antonio, and then the wheels fell off.

You know, San Antonio showed you, Mark, why they're an elite team.

You know, they've been in a situation the Bulls have been in, having to rebuild and having to – you know, take some losses on the chin, but they built their team through the draft.

And you see what it looks like when you focus in and you're patient and you get the right picks, you can build a powerhouse.

And that's what San Antonio has done down there.

Well, we'll talk more about the Bulls and the road trip, some of the things that Stacey saw when he was watching all those games, seeing the two MVP candidates up close, and Che Gilgis-Alexander and Victor Wimbanyama.

But first, we want to get to the story that's been making headlines, not only in Chicago, but nationally.

That is the whole Jaden Ivey saga.

Ivey was acquired from the Detroit Pistons at the deadline in exchange for Kevin Herter, and Herter, who wasn't playing with the Pistons, has now cracked that rotation.

He's getting some minutes now over there.

But Ivy was kind of a future play.

He only played four games.

Everybody with the coaching staff and anybody who watched the game saw he was not moving as well as he did when he was an all-Big Ten player at Purdue and a lottery pick in the draft.

And then he took to Instagram and various social media outlets, recording videos in his car in various places, just basically... is espousing all the things that he thought were important in his life.

And the Bulls finally decided that they had had enough of that.

Felt that some of his comments that were anti-gay were crossing the line.

And they just decided that he's going to be a restricted free agent.

They don't really have an interest in bringing him back.

And they decided to cut bait right away.

He was released on Monday for contact detrimental to the team.

Stacey, it's a very complicated story.

Some people are bringing up free speech issues, and the young man has a right to talk about his religion, but clearly there are some things that are going on with Jaden Ivey that go beyond freedom of speech issues.