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The 2008 NBA Draft was initially all about Michael Beasley.

Before the college season started, Beasley was the unmovable top pick candidate. Then Derrick Rose shifted the top pick candidate with his great freshman season, profoundly impacting the 2008 NBA Lottery Draft.

Rose was from Chicago, and Chicago had been lacking a figure to revitalize the city's basketball scene since Jordan's retirement.

Every ten years comes a cycle, and Rose was supposed to be "the one."

Therefore, there was a force in the air that insisted the Chicago Bulls had to draw this year's top draft pick.

Months ago, the Chicago Bulls drew the number one draft pick with the second-lowest probability in history. You have to believe in the League's fairness and justice; it was certainly not to give the Windy City's son a LeBron James-like hometown start, just like the chain reaction Yu Fei triggered in Seattle. It was pure luck; the Bulls were just fortunate, you have to believe that.