Expectations soared when reigning Defensive Player of the Year Ben Wallace signed a four-year, $60 million deal with the Bulls in July 2006.
The Bulls were coming off a .500 record in 2005-06, falling in six games to the eventual champion Miami Heat in the first round of the playoffs.
But adding the 31-year-old Wallace was expected to inject life into a Bulls defense that young Tyson Chandler hadn't been able to; the Bulls then traded Chandler to the New Orleans Hornets for P.J. Brown and J.R. Smith.
But Wallace never lived up to his billing after leaving Detroit, averaging 5.