Joe Willett: I have been able to witness this "action" first hand as a Bulls fan.  They are probably going to either lose Luol Deng or Ben Gordon at the end of season, and they still don't have a dominating big man. 

They flopped on the last two drafts with Tyrus Thomas and Joakim Noah.  They need to bring in somebody to dominate the inside and some star power on the perimeter. They will continue to be an average team that gets knocked out of the first round every single year.

Chad Ridgeway: John Paxson did a great job reviving the Bulls from the Krause era, but in hindsight, it’s easy to see he’s been a gutless GM. For years the Bulls have been the favorites to land KG, Pau Gasol, and even Kobe Bryant. Yet the only big name free agent they landed was Ben Wallace, which was the worst signing of the decade this side of the Knicks.

Their young team has not only run out of time, they have regressed. I don’t see any way they improve next season unless a new coach somehow invigorates the franchise, and if that’s the case, pencil him in for the 2009 COY award because Paxson ain’t gonna be the one saving them.

Andrew Kneeland: Whatever the Bulls are doing now, it's not working very well. They've got great talent on their team with Deng and Gordon, and if they hold on to those guys and pick up a few more through free agency and the draft, they should be very good in the coming years.

Then again, that's what they were saying during last year's off-season. Maybe they should try the Miami approach: bomb all your games in order to get a high pick. Or the popular Kevin McHale approach: act stupid and make very few if any smart moves in the off-season.

Who will reign the Pacific Northwest next season; the Portland Trail Blazers or the Seattle Supersonics?

Andrew Ungvari: You're assuming the Seattle Supersonics will still exist next season. Regardless, the Blazers are primed to make a run at the division title next year. While it looks as though Greg Oden should be 100 percent, it doesn't look like Rudy Fernandez will be joining him.

The Blazers own the rights to Fernandez, widely-regarded as European basketball's best player, but it doesn't look like he's going to pass up a guaranteed $25 million to play for a rookie-scale contract in the NBA just yet.

Even without Fernandez, the Blazers will be better. If a third-party doctor can declare that Darius Miles' knee injury is career-ending, then the Blazers might have some money to spend in free agency as well. Scary thought for the rest of the Western Conference. The Blazers only need a little infusion of veteran leadership to start building towards a title.

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