Bulls fans fantasizing about the possibility of LeBron James coming to Chicago after his Miami Heat contract expires in 2014 should be forewarned: Derrick Rose isn't going to pick up the phone to lure King James, or any other player.

"I don't recruit," Rose told rappler.com this week. "If anyone wants to play with me, I wouldn't mind playing with, it could be anybody in the NBA, but as far as recruiting, I never did or never will."

Rose also talked about how difficult it was to sit out the entire season and not be able to help his teammates during the playoffs.

"I had to think about my future, and at the time I wasn't 100 percent," Rose said. "I wasn't able to take on double teams; I knew I could get around one person but two people, I wasn't ready for that."

Asked if the Bulls could've beaten the Heat --- who went on to win their second straight NBA title -- if he had been 100 percent, Rose said, "Who knows? I think we would have given them a good challenge, but who knows? It's in the past."

Rose was reminded of his comment to CNN this summer that he considered himself the NBA's best player and, asked if he still felt that way, said: "Until I retire, I think my answer's not going to change. It's just the way I feel. I know I got a lot of criticism about it, but who cares?"