Matt Harpring was almost a Chicago Bull this offseason.  The Bulls wanted him, Harpring was happy to go to Chicago but there was a hitch.

"They were waiting. Krause was always telling us he had something cooking. We were like, 'OK, Jerry, what do you have going? Nothing's happening.'

"Basically, when I got an offer from Utah, we said, 'Jerry, you have 24 hours to match it.' He tried to come back with, 'I need more time.' Well, the next day I signed."

And the day after that the Bulls signed Utah free agent Donyell Marshall.  The moves have worked out great for both players, and Harpring for one shows no bitterness to the team who left him at the alter.

"I've been in the league five years and I know already it's a business. I've been promised a lot of things and maybe half of them have been delivered.

"I heard that [Krause] put the spin on it. Whatever. I don't care. It doesn't bother me."

"I'm not going to speculate on [Harpring]," said Bulls coach Bill Cartwright. "But I've said this before, that at the end of last season we never thought we could get Donyell because who would let him go?"