“It’s so many good memories,” said Deng of his decade with the Bulls from No. 7 pick in the 2004 draft until a 2014 trade to Cleveland. “When you are going through it, you really don’t see it that way. You’re in the league, you’re trying to prove a point, you’re trying to be the best player you can be. Every day, ‘You can do this, you can’t do that, we need this, we don’t need that.’ You kind of forget the relationship you have and what you are building. And then you think back to Chicago and what it meant. I know we never won a championship, but there’s a lot of good memories of how hard we played, how hard we battled growing up in front of the fans; those are things you look back on. For me to be here 10 years is such a blessing.”