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["Thomas Murphy" <tfmiii@worldnet.att.net>]

06/21-THE BULLS ARE ACTIVELY IN PLAY- The Bulls have brought in basically
everyone they wanted to see, and are now formulating plans and strategy.
Krause warned media that in his mind this would be the hardest draft in
history to predict, and said in his view the Bulls would simply have to plan
for every thing possible and see what starts taking shape in the 1st two
selections. The Bulls have an order they'd like to see the draft go, but
they are developing bail out plans should the draft go in a direction they
don't want. Last year the Bulls had plans to steal Darius Miles but were
beaten to the punch by the Clippers, and were forced to make a decision that
didn't pay off last year. This year the Bulls plan to have options should
the draft turn against them as last year's did. One of those options could
be sending the #4 pick to the Celtics for their #10 and #21 selections, with
the C's grabbing Pau Gasol who did not remove himself from the draft class
yesterday. Another exit strategy that's surfaced is a deal through Houston
in which the # 4 would go south for #13 and #18, or the #13 and Kelvin Cato.
Its been assumed the Rockets would go after Gasol, but team sources again
say the team is not very high on the European forwards and would have more
interest in one of the more proven talents like Eddie Griffin or Rodney
White.