If this is true, and I see no reason why Wade would lie, the Bulls super team was a lot closer to happening than we thought. They should have done anything they could to give Deng away and make it happen. Also makes me wonder when the Bulls knew it wasn't going to happen. If I recall correctly, the Bulls signed Boozer probably 3 days before "The Decision". Obviously signing Boozer removed any possibility of having room for 3 max FAs and even probably 2. Did the Bulls pretty much know at that point, or did they really think that signing Boozer would be more attractive to Wade or James than teaming with Bosh, or that Chicago was such an attractive draw for either of them that they could accept playing with Boozer instead of Bosh? no we "knew" lebron (and thus one of the others) was very close as it was happening. at one point the bulls were enormous favorites in vegas to land him (IIRC lebron to chicago was as high as -500 to -800 at one point) one time when we had the old archives i read through the FA 2010 free agency thread on here and we were pretty much in pandemonium for a week straight