You met with the Bulls not once but twice in July of that year. "Things are getting very interesting," ESPN sources quoted you as saying. Upping the intrigue was the fact that Derrick Rose had just completed his second year in the league, and the thought of you teaming up with him to form an unstoppable backcourt was just as exciting (and more realistic?) than thinking LeBron James would choose Chicago. Of course, we all know what happened then.