Doug McDermott Rumors

John​ Paxson won’t​ waste​ your​ time​ arguing that the Cameron Payne trade​ was a good​ basketball​ deal. He will,​ however,​ defend​​ one of his most despised decisions as a good business deal. “What we gave up was Doug McDermott and Taj (Gibson), who, given the youth of our team, we weren’t going to re-sign that summer,” Paxson, the Bulls executive vice president of basketball operations, told The Athletic in late 2018. “So for us, it looked like an opportunity to see what kind of a point guard he could be.”