Bulls' hit jackpot with Wade, Crowder's Celtics score even better offseason

Outside of Golden State's signing of Kevin Durant, Marquette's returning NBA players are  on the teams that could improve the most based on offseason moves to date. I rank the 30 team's offseasons in a Thursday Breitbart piece.

Click here for a more detailed analysis of the 148 best players by team. Here are the Bulls and Celtics players worth at least four extra wins based on last year's NBA Estimated Wins and the college Value Add basketball rankings

Player	2016	2017	Extra Wins
Robin Lopez	NY	CHI	7.8
Jimmy Butler	CHI	CHI	13.3
Dwyane Wade	MIA	CHI	11.1
Rajon Rondo	SAC	CHI	7.5
Denzel Valentine	Michigan St.	CHI	7.2
Taj Gibson	CHI	CHI	4.0
Isaiah Thomas	BOS	BOS	13.9
Al Horford	ATL	BOS	11.6
Jae Crowder	BOS	BOS	6.1
Jared Sullinger	BOS	BOS	5.9
Ben Bentil	Providence	BOS	5.7
Amir Johnson	BOS	BOS	4.1
Ante Zizic	Croatia	BOS	4.0
Guerschon Yabusele	France	BOS	4.0
Jaylen Brown	California	BOS	4.0
Kelly Olynyk	BOS	BOS	4.0

To walk through the math, Wade was worth an additional 11.1 wins last season, while the acquisition of Robin Lopez (+7.8) and Rajon Rondo (+7.5) and the draft of Denzel Valentine (+7.2) improve the team. Next we subtract -12.7 for the loss of Pau Gasol and the normal -6.0 atrophy for each team – the Bulls project a 15-game improvement.

Whether or not Wade can repeat his level of play at 35 years old, and whether adding a whole bunch of good players to a Celtics team that really just needs one great one is also in question, but the pick up of Al Horford seems to give the Celtics a shot to go to the next level in the East.

As for Detroit, we have Michael Gbinije having a bigger first year impact, with Henry Ellenson the bigger star over his career once he stops twisting his body and hand on his shot.

It has been a great offseason for the former MU players - let's see if it plays out next year.