The Chicago Bulls are officially all-in on point guard Josh Giddey.

After a laborious 71-day period of negotiations, the Bulls finally came to terms with Giddey this week on a four-year, $100 million deal.

There was never any true concern about Giddey not returning to Chicago. It’s what both sides wanted — a long-term agreement to keep the 22-year-old Aussie as a focal point for a Bulls team looking to build around youth. Yet as the offseason stretched on, Giddey was one of the last restricted free agents left on the market alongside the Golden State Warriors’ Jonathan Kuminga and the Philadelphia 76ers’ Quentin Grimes.

So why the long wait?

The only standoff between the Bulls and Giddey revolved around money. When free agency opened , the parameters for negotiations seemed pretty

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