Rahimi, Harris & Grote Show - Bulls' make a 'shrewd' move to acquire 2nd-round draft capital

Episode Date: February 2, 2026

Marshall Harris and Mark Grote reacted to the Bulls acquiring a pair of second-round picks in a three-team trade over the weekend.

Rahimi Harrison Grody, Midday's Tyndal 2 on Chicago Sports Radio, 1043, the score. And we're down to the final 20 seconds. Jock Chonis will dribble O' 88 second line. This game, thankfully, is over. As the Miami Heat take care of business on their home floor, they win the season series, 3-1. And the final score here in South Florida, Miami-134, and the Bulls, 91. It was a beating. Welcome back to Rahimi Harrison Grotie on the score.

Our sponsor by Almost Free Teeth.com, affordable implants, life-changing smiles. You heard it right here on 670 the score, Chuck and Bill right there, on what used to be just 670 the score at the time. Now we are officially FM 104 the score. Heat beat the Bulls 134 to 91. Just a few things from the text line before we get to it here on the Bulls. had an opportunity to use FM, went through the car wash. No static.

Didn't miss a word. That's another place where you used to lose the score. Yes, those pesky car washes are no longer an issue. From the 815, great interview with my favorite player, Cole Commet. Another one. Cole Commet was a great speaker. You know why all of this? Because FM.

That is why. I'll even read the 7-08. How is it possible for you guys to have interviewed, at least that's how you should phrase it, Cole Comette, and you didn't ask him about his fourth down TD catch in the last playoff game. He's been asked about it and asked about it and asked about it and asked about it and asked about it. He wants to move on. We want to move on.

We did move on. I'm comfortable with it. Are you, Marshall? We thought there were more current things to ask him about. Absolutely. No regrets whatsoever. Cole Commet was fantastic. The Bulls did make some news, too, beyond the fact.

that they were down by 54 at one point last night and lost to the heat and faced the heat three straight times, something that hadn't happened in the NBA since 1972, quite a thing. And we could kind of hit on some of the games if we want. But the news being the three-team NBA trade that went down that did involve the Bulls. First, the Cleveland Cavaliers traded DeAndre Hunter to the Sacramento Kings for Dennis Schrooter and Keon Ellis. The deal includes the Bulls acquiring the Kings for Dario Sarshich. Two second round picks as well.

The Bulls also needed to waive somebody to make room on the roster. That would be Javon Carter. He was waived by the Bulls. And by the way, those Bulls second round picks, 2027 second round pick from Cleveland, 29 second round pick from Sacramento. Marshall Harris, I can't wait to hear your reaction on this Bulls trade. So when this news came across, you got to understand.

Javon Carter had just led the bench scoring in a Bulls win over the heat in which he dropped three-threes, had 11 points. And I was like, okay, this is a nice game from the Bulls reserves because there was no Josh Giddy, there was no Kobe White, there was no Nikola Vutchevich, still no Jalen Smith. I was like, this is a great game. And then to go from that to moments later, I mean, I don't even think they were done with the post-game press conference. and Javon Carter's been waived. And that's Chicago's own Javon Carter,

Proviso East star Javon Carter. I was like, oh, that's tough for him. But I know he was a professional all the way through, had been out of the rotation instead of this. He got to play here too. He did get to play for his hometown team. He did. And he got paid.

Yes. He got paid. And somebody will probably pick him up and he'll be on a playoff team, I'm guessing, before the end of this season. Who knows he may circle back round of the bulls someday too. Yeah. So that, and then I was like,

but let me look at this trade. real quick. I was like, okay, this is actually a very shrewd and smart trade from Arturish Karnasovas. And I was like, I hope this isn't the extent of what we're doing for trade season, being the Bulls, but as far as a first appetizer starter, you know, you get to the table and you're like, oh, I want some food. And then you're like, let's order some apps from the table. I love this as an appetizer for the Bulls because they get draft capital, which is something they need more of. You can never have enough future draft picks. And as you mentioned, this is like spaced out, 2027 second round pick from the Cavs,

2029 second round pick from the Kings. And you didn't give up anything except for the two-way deal of Emmanuel Miller sending that to the Cavaf. So I like this deal for the Bulls. Now they need to do what I've been asking for, which is move out anything that's not nailed down to the floor. All right. Dario Sarish, for people who are not familiar with him or his game, 31-year-old 6-10 power forward slash center from Croatia. who was the 12th overall pick once upon a time ago in 2014, played in five games for Sacramento this year,

nine seasons early in his career with Philly, but has averaged just over 32 games a year over the last five years of his career. So he's not been really available. What do you think of this player? What's he going to do for the Bulls? I was in Philly when he was drafted. He was a draft and stash,

and the whole thing was, By the way, really quickly, I want to correct, I think I said nine seasons. Nine season, total. Yeah, yes, right. But nice seasons is what I meant to say. Okay, so he played two and a half seasons with the Sixers when he finally did come over from Europe. And here's what he is. He is a classic stretch four of the European variety.

And offensively, very smart player is going to be able to do, think of like what Vouch does offensively. You know, how he can facilitate. He can make all the fundamental. plays. He can shoot a little bit, a lifetime, 360 shooter from three. The defense is lacking. The defense is lacking. He is a defensive liability. I knew we were going to get to something at some point in time. There's a reason he's only played five games for a team that's challenging for worst record in the NBA in the Sacramento Kings. Precisely. Can't crack the rotation. No doubt. But this is more of a salary thing, right? Because he's

on an expiring deal as well. They keep him and then maybe he plays a little bit, whatever. But at the end of the year that's just added to the cap, like the amount of space that the bulls are going to have to operate under. But again, I like this move, but they need to be thinking about getting rid of Vooch, they need to be thinking about getting rid of Kobe White and others. This hour is sponsored by AlmostFreeTeeth.com, affordable implants, life-changing smiles from the 708. I love that you keep talking about amplitude modulation as though it is a distant history.

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