If you’re a Bulls fan and found yourself getting wistful while witnessing the elation that San Antonio felt Tuesday night after nabbing the right to take 7-foot-4 phenom Victor Wembanyama in the draft, few people would blame you. That was Chicago once. That was you once.
Fifteen years ago, the Bulls shockingly won the NBA’s draft lottery, nabbing the first overall pick with a minuscule 1.7% chance of doing so. The city was bruised the next day from pinching itself so much. Did the impossible just happen? Did the Bulls really just win the right to be great again?
