Sure, Hinrich is not a bad player. His current salary is a bit largish (10M), considering his lousy season last year, but, on the positive side, he does have declining pay scale.

If the Bulls draft Rose, he’ll likely be available, and the Bulls will undoubtedly be restructuring their payroll this summer since their two most talented players are not under contract (Deng and Gordon).

The question becomes what is worth giving up for him: we’re short on draft picks. We have this year’s, which we really shouldn’t trade without getting a young prospect as well, and then our pick next year (likely in the mid-20s). But we lack a pick in 2010. The only young talent I could see the Bulls giving up though is Thomas. Noah is, more or less, untouchable, considering their lack of size. So I’d hope we wouldn’t trade a pick.

If we could perhaps trade Diaw straight up for Hinrich, I could get behind that trade. And when you consider Chicago’s lack of size and the increasing possibility that they might move Deng, it’s not an impossible trade. So I’m with that.

But I’d hate to see us trade away our pick in this exceptionally deep draft.

this team can’t afford him.

Doesn’t $9M for $10M work. That’d be addition by subtraction, but, yeah, Chicago won’t do that.

I know the Boris fan club is kind of thin but I would take him over Hinrich almost every day of the week (expect Sunday’s where Boris is hungover from his Saturday night in Scottsdale bars drinking hefeweizen and stealing babes from Matt Leinhart)

I think the back up PG should be someone like Lowery or whichever of those 3 young PG’s the Grizz doesn’t want.

Maybe vinny will get us a discount, a la Memphis.