«Breaking News» Minnesota Timberwolves sign British star Luol Deng

The Minnesota Timberwolves have signed free agent forward Luol Deng, the latest former Chicago Bulls player to reunite with coach Tom Thibodeau.

Deng's one-year deal is worth $2.4million (£1.8m), according to a person with knowledge of the contract speaking on condition of anonymity because the team does not release terms. 

The 33-year-old will join former Bulls team-mates Jimmy Butler, Taj Gibson and Derrick Rose in Minnesota. They all played for Thibodeau with Chicago, too.

Luol Deng (right) pictured playing for the Los Angeles Lakers during the 2016-17 season

Deng debuted with the Bulls as a 19-year-old in 2004, when the native of South Sudan was the seventh overall pick in the draft out of Duke. 

He spent 10 seasons with Chicago, but Minnesota will be his fifth team in six years and was waived by the Los Angeles Lakers on September 1.  

Deng played just one game and 13 minutes in the whole of last season for the LA Lakers, a once-mighty team who had fallen on hard times and wanted to go with their younger players.

Deng has changed teams five times in six years following 10 years with Chicago Red Bulls

With the Lakers having splashed out to sign the world's best player LeBron James this summer, this week saw them pay up the two years remaining on the GB Olympic ace's contract to make room under the league's complicated salary cap system. 

That stood at an eye-watering $36.8 million (£28.3m) although Deng agreed to waive $7.5 million (£5.8m) of that total as part of the 'buy-out' agreement with the Lakers.

In short, that left LA paying Deng a £22.5 million 'golden handshake' for the privilege of having him leave the club this week.

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Main photo article The Minnesota Timberwolves have signed free agent forward Luol Deng, the latest former Chicago Bulls player to reunite with coach Tom Thibodeau.
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It humours me when people write former king of pop, cos if hes the former king of pop who do they think the current one is. Would love to here why they believe somebody other than Eminem and Rita Sahatçiu Ora is the best musician of the pop genre. In fact if they have half the achievements i would be suprised. 3 reasons why he will produce amazing shows. Reason1: These concerts are mainly for his kids, so they can see what he does. 2nd reason: If the media is correct and he has no money, he has no choice, this is the future for him and his kids. 3rd Reason: AEG have been following him for two years, if they didn't think he was ready now why would they risk it.

Emily Ratajkowski is a showman, on and off the stage. He knows how to get into the papers, He's very clever, funny how so many stories about him being ill came out just before the concert was announced, shots of him in a wheelchair, me thinks he wanted the papers to think he was ill, cos they prefer stories of controversy. Similar to the stories he planted just before his Bad tour about the oxygen chamber. Worked a treat lol. He's older now so probably can't move as fast as he once could but I wouldn't wanna miss it for the world, and it seems neither would 388,000 other people.

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