OJ Mayo - Bulls interested??

[thefish7]

It also could just be a lot of smoke and mirrors from his agent/camp to try and put some pressure on the Nets deal to happen sooner than later.

If the Bulls really do have a chance, I don't care if the deal involves Noah or not, it better be long term otherwise he is gone to NY next year. We don't need a rental.

Very good point. Also, for posterity's sake, Nene is WAY too well paid to be in the deal. ESPN trade machine has Noah, Deng, Bogans, and JJ for Melo and Birdman as something that works. I'd do that trade, provided Melo isn't a rental.

[tornado]

OJ Mayo currently serving a 10-game suspension for testing positive for a banned substance..
The substance is DHEA, an anabolic steroid that is used and abused by bodybuilders and athletes, although it is generally available.


OJ claims he's innocent, however, and that all he did was drink an energy drink..

http://nba-facts-and-rumors.blogs.cbssports.com/mcc/blogs/entry/22748484/27301338

http://www.pantagraph.com/sports/basketball/professional/nba/article_6c83d31e-2c1a-11e0-96a8-001cc4c03286.html

He says he bought an "energy drink" at a gas station but gives no other details nor the name of the drink he claims to have bought.
NONE of the most commonly available energy drinks have DHEA in them, and the only few that do are available so few places, that you'd have to shop a specialty health food store to find one.
One Yahoo reporter went to dozens of gas stations and convenience stores in and around Memphis and couldn't find a single drink that had DHEA...so a lot of people believe OJ's lying.

Regardless.....how can he claim to be innocent, when he is the one responsible for what he puts in his body?
Even if he drank the substance in an energy drink, then shouldn't he have known better? Anyway -- does anyone actually believe this was just an accidental ingestion in an energy drink...virtually none of whioch contain this substance?

[FlyingSpaghettiMonster]

Noah is difficult to trade now b/c of his contract. I highly doubt the Bulls trade for Melo.

Mayo could probably be had on the cheap. Deng for Mayo in some fashion probably does not improve the Bulls. Mayo seems to be a high risk player at this point. I don't believe him about DHEA in an energy drink. There just seem to be too many negatives around Mayo.

[thefish7]

Trading Deng for OJ Mayo doesn't really help. Bulls need to improve at SG without creating a hole at SF. Deng's also playing pretty well lately and being asked to do a lot... Only problem with him is his salary. If you're not going to pull in Melo, you don't move Deng (or Noah for that matter). I think the guy I'm most interested in at this point for a "deadline deal" to improve the SG position just a bit is Courtney Lee. He's having a down year, but he's a more complete player at SG than Brewer or Korver. He won't cost much, and maybe Thibs can get him back to the level he was playing at last year. He's constitute a major improvement over Bogans and may only cost you James Johnson (whose salary lines up very nicely with Lee's).