“The league is different now. But you always learn lessons from the past,” he said. “The big thing back then is (Chairman) Jerry (Reinsdorf) stepped up and we paid ($3 million) for a first-round pick (Luol Deng). This year, we had to trade a good player in Niko for a first-round pick. But we knew there was value in having more than one first-round pick. And we had cap space both times. Back then, we used it on (Andres) Nocioni and this year we were able to use it on Jabari.