" We'd like to know the answer to the question posed above, but every time we've spoken to Mark Bartelstein in the last three days, the garrulous agent says something like, "Crazy, crazy, a million things going on, talk to you in an hour, things are changing, gotta find my meds….."

Okay, we made that last part up.

But the Nets might need to borrow some of those meds before the week is out.

Earlier today, they offered Carlos Boozer five years and $75 million, and by the time the Bulls put $80 million on the table – just as you knew they would – his mind was made up.

Rod Thorn was never even given a chance to match, according to someone familiar with Boozer's options. "