Jerry "organizations win championships; not players" Krause resigned fom the Chicago Bulls due to health reasons.

hahahahah

uh huh, and if you believe that was the reason he stepped down, then I am in line to be the next Kobe Bryant in a few years.

lolol

Krause was an absolute joke, hated by many many Chicago fans (I know, b/c I lived in Chicago for 4 years, during the Jordan title runs). With the exception of drafting Scottie Pippen, all Krause ever did was take up space in Chicago.

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Bulls' Krause steps down due to health problems
April 7, 2003
SportsLine.com wire reports

CHICAGO -- Chicago Bulls general manager Jerry Krause resigned Monday, citing health problems, after helping build the dominant NBA team of the 1990s and then struggling to rebuild.

With Krause as GM, the Bulls won six titles behind the play of Michael Jordan. But Chicago has bottomed out since Jordan left after the final championship in 1998.

At 27-50 through Monday, Chicago will finish with a losing record for the fifth straight season and miss the playoffs again.

"The rigors and stress of the job have caused me some minor physical problems in the past few years," Krause said in statement released by the team. "Those problems can be eliminated if I lessen my load for a while and concentrate on overcoming them."

The 64-year-old Krause, the Bulls' GM since 1985, did not elaborate on his health problems.

Just as the two-time NBA executive of the year was credited for finding players to complement Jordan -- a player he did not draft -- Krause also was criticized for breaking up the run of success.

He alienated coach Phil Jackson, Jordan and Scottie Pippen, often over who should get credit for the championships. When Jordan retired before the lockout-shortened season of 1999, the dynasty crumbled. Jordan later joined the Washington Wizards' front office before returning as a player.

Krause brought in his own hand-picked successor to Jackson, Tim Floyd, who resigned in December 2001, so frustrated with the rebuilding he didn't publicly thank Krause on his way out.

Bill Cartwright, a center on the first three title teams, took over as coach. And although there has been improvement this season, especially in two high school players who went directly to the pros -- Eddy Curry and Tyson Chandler -- Chicago is still a long way from being a contender. The Bulls have won three road games all season.

One of Krause's biggest deals came in 1987, when he maneuvered with Seattle for the draft rights to Pippen, who went on to become Jordan's famous sidekick and was selected as one of the NBA's 50 greatest players.

Krause also signed Croatian star Toni Kukoc, another important player in Chicago's final three titles.

Team chairman Jerry Reinsdorf said he hoped to have a successor in place within the next month. He praised Krause for surrounding Jordan with talented teammates.

"He brought with him a vision of how to build a champion and he proceeded to create one of the most dominant champions of all time," Reinsdorf said.

"No basketball fan in America can begin to imagine the world champion Chicago Bulls without his imprint. There would not have been a Coach Phil Jackson. There would not have been Scottie Pippen, Bill Cartwright, Dennis Rodman, or a host of others who wore Bulls uniforms during those championship seasons."

Krause emphasized in the team statement that he is not retiring.

"I take great pride in what we've accomplished here. The staff, players and coaches will always be a bright spot in my heart," Krause said. "I'm very confident that we have assembled the key pieces so that the franchise can return to the NBA's elite teams in the very near future."

I am sure there are a lot of people happy that he is resigning!

radiohead...the fans flocking Division and Clark bars and clubs will probably have a week's worth of celebration over Krause's "retirement due to health factors"


lololol


much like an athlete saying "it's not about the money; it's about respect" and then signing with the team that paid him more, despite that team not having a chance to make the play-offs in the upcoming season.

Its about time!!!. Chicago sports are known to report these kind of changes.... I.E. Resign due to health reasons, Reinsdorf probably fired him or told him to quit to save face , but to make it sound good.... Resigning for health reasons...

Krause was an idiot, pure and simple. Maybe Pippen will want to get out of the Minimum security prison they call the Trailblazers now and come back for his last seasons w/ the Bulls?

I think Pippen, on the last legs of his career, would want to join Phil and the Lakers for NBA titles run.

Bulls are quite a ways from play-offs.

The 2 7-footers play extremely well in one game; then play like high schoolers the next. Witness them beating the Lakers, then losing to Indiana by 50+ points.

Originally posted by podstock
I think Pippen, on the last legs of his career, would want to join Phil and the Lakers for NBA titles run.

Bulls are quite a ways from play-offs.

The 2 7-footers play extremely well in one game; then play like high schoolers the next. Witness them beating the Lakers, then losing to Indiana by 50+ points.

Their biggest mistake was drafting Jay Wills... he's garbage.

Iggy, you know, I seriously thought Jay Williams was a great pick.
He stayed for a couple of years to fine tune his game at Duke before leaving.

Yes, his free throw shooting was suspect (so was Magics, who shot 76-79% in rookie years, then went as high as 90% in late 1980s). And his mid-range shooting could be better (again, Magic vastly improved during his career in this mid range jumpers).

But, I never thought Williams was a whiner. Until now.

You know, Duke may have fantastic seasons..but man,

Christian Laettner --- and absolute flop; Timberwolves fans would skin him alive if it was legal; this dude had a bad attitude.

Grant Hill --- one of the most overpaid athletes in NBA history.

Bobby Hurley ---- was a bust even before his automobile accident in Sacramento

and now Jay williams.

I'm not quite sure of his local connections, but he'd always be up here in the summer playing hoops. I went up the one playground a couple of times to watch him and I knew then he wasn't going to be anything in the NBA. If you can't make kids in Pittsburgh look silly, you're definitely not going to fare well in the NBA.

Just remember.....


"THERE"S NO I IN TEAM....... BUT THERE"S A ME!!"

Perhaps this means Michael will come back to the Bulls organizatio; he has no obligations to the Wizards for next year.

Originally posted by podstock
Perhaps this means Michael will come back to the Bulls organizatio; he has no obligations to the Wizards for next year.

Name 1 reason why he would want to?

Iggy ---

Chicago is a sports town; and with respect to basketball, he made it an NBA town. He still lives there, has his restaurant there located on Lasalle St.

And, what better way to commercialize his business (i.e. make more money for himself) than to do so as a Chicago Bull.

Jordan's never going to be associated as a Wizard.


Sort of like Kobe and the Lakers. If Kobe ever leaves L.A., he'll probably do so for Memphis to be reunited with Jerry West.
But he makes more money in L.A. (endorsements, etc) than he will in Memphis.

That's all good and all, but tell me, why would he want to go to Chicago, as a coach or as a player? There's nothing left for him to do in Chicago and with the way the team is going now, who in their right mind would want to.

But, that's what makes a coach/executive manager special --- when you can make something out of nothing. Wouldn't that be something of a challenge for the hyper-competitive Jordan... to know that he rebuilt the Bulls back to championship form from the silly putty that Krause made?

I personally think the Bulls have a good young crop.

I watched Curry and Chandler bottle up Shaq (all 3 are 7-footers), and the other Bulls did a good job containing the Lakers, twice this season.

If you can beat the Lakers 2x in a season, that should tell you that the team has potential. All they need is to keep improving.

But here's the problem. Very rarely do you see a Jerry Rice, Kobe Bryant ---- who spend their entire off-season working to improve their games. Even Shaq spends his off-season with his sheriff and police crap, or else making movies and CDs.

Will the Bulls young players have the motivation to spend every day of the summer in the gym working on their game? After all, when you're making millions, and you're not even legal drinking age, and all the chicks are after you, you would spend hours in the gym?

I would like to see MJ coach at North Carolina.

I don't know if wdwain was serious or not, but why does everyone think just because Michael Jordan was a great basketball player, that he's Jesus Christ reincarnate and is the savior of everything?

Iggy....at this point, Jordan gets all the benefits of the doubt, and deservedly so.

Let Jordan PROVE that he is not capable. He's earned the right to fail, no?

Great players prove time and time again that they can't coach. Why? Because coaching is teaching. There was no learning for Michael Jordan because he had natural talent. How can one teach something that comes natural to them? You just can't and that's why Jordan will never be a coach. Just because he was great on the court does not mean we hand over the team to him.

Originally posted by podstock
Iggy, you know, I seriously thought Jay Williams was a great pick.
He stayed for a couple of years to fine tune his game at Duke before leaving.

Yes, his free throw shooting was suspect (so was Magics, who shot 76-79% in rookie years, then went as high as 90% in late 1980s). And his mid-range shooting could be better (again, Magic vastly improved during his career in this mid range jumpers).

But, I never thought Williams was a whiner. Until now.

You know, Duke may have fantastic seasons..but man,

Christian Laettner --- and absolute flop; Timberwolves fans would skin him alive if it was legal; this dude had a bad attitude.

Grant Hill --- one of the most overpaid athletes in NBA history.

Bobby Hurley ---- was a bust even before his automobile accident in Sacramento

and now Jay williams.

Which jay will are you talking about, the one on the bulls played in maryland. LOL

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iggy
they were talking about in the chi about MJ being the gm, there is a lot of talk about bj armstrong and or john paxson being the gm.

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I for one thought jerry krause didn't do a bad job as a gm, yeah he drafted this guy name pippen out of a little college in AK who nobody had really heard of and made the bone head trade of the decade by trading oakley for cartwright everybody thought that was dumb to including me. he drafted that little punk name john paxson and picked that studdering loser named ron harper and yeah he made the second worse trade of the decade sending longley to the spurs for that real loser rodman, and everytime he always built a support cast for MJ, MJ would not have the title if it wasn't for the krause's moves.

yeah people will argue that while MJ was drafted before krause got there, but he built a supporting cast around him and yeah he picked up stacy king, when he came out of college he was the shyt. it is one other person they were knocking him cause he didn't pick up but the truth is 30 other gm's passed on him too.

the knock on krause was he had no people skills, I can name a lot of people that don't, MJ doesn't it you ask me. he let phil Jackson walk, but then again jackson said he would sign a 1 year contract and then he was done and then wanted to coach a couple more and krause held him to his word. The GM spot is tough, if you draft a bust you are an idiot, but how do you know it when they gain top honors in the college ranks, ah yeah he brought this guy name toni kukoc in too. but the key is what have these players done once they left the bulls, NOTHING. if you don't think he did a great job of surrounding MJ with people would help win, think about this, the knicks had ewing and they could build a championship team around. you can say the same about barkley as he got traded to houston and died there right after they won championships and they could not win with him, but hey they did with robert horry. You can also say they he also brought in Phil Jackson who really hadn't won anywhere else before and got rid of doug collins.

Think about was he all that bad in build championships and Heck No, MJ couldn't win them by himself, BKB ain't golf or tennis.

Just my take on it.

Let's not forget that Krause also brought back Tex Winters to coaching position about 18 years ago.

But, when all is said and done, Krause will forever be reviled in Chicago...b/c Jordan and his mates would've won 2, if not more, championships had they been allowed to continue

I forgot about tex and I believe that is his offense they are running the triangle.

Gi -- the amazing thing is: Tex invented the triangle offense, which helped Jordan win his 6 titles, and helped Kobe/Shaq win their 3.

Now, if the Lakers actually decide to play some defense, they'll win a 4th.

Hell, with the way my Lakers have played defense this year, I could average 20+ points. lolol

Anyone who plays basketball, in the streets or in organized ball, can make jump shots if they're left alone without defensive pressure.