3.7%

Higher than this time last year, yet I want to say the national media gave the Bulls at least a 25% chance to beat the Heat going into the playoffs last season.

The List
The champions. With the exception of the 2003-04 Pistons, no team won an NBA championship dating back to 1980 unless it had at least one of these 11 players.

6 championships: Michael Jordan
5: Kobe Bryant
5: Magic Johnson
4: Tim Duncan
4: Shaquille O'Neal
3: Larry Bird
2: Hakeem Olajuwon
2: Isiah Thomas
1: Kevin Garnett
1: Dwyane Wade
1: Moses Malone

For Bulls fans who are constantly angry at Gar, Pax, or Jerry; please understand how hard/luckily it is to get a Championship level player. That's 11 players in 30 years. It kind of shows you how insignificant it is to worry about replacing Bogans with another NBA warm body.

Woah, this certainly changes 20months of predicting the 2010 FA saga for the Bulls.

Brief Recap - SI's Ian Thomsen is reporting he thinks there is gonna be a Hard Salary Cap ( no more chance of going into the lux. tax) as result of 2011 CBA. WOW ...discuss