Tim Floyd finally "resigned" from a job he never should have had, which can only be a good thing for the tykes he didn't want to play: Tyson Chandler and Eddy Curry.
Bill Cartwright replaced Floyd, which should be even better for them. Cartwright won three championship rings as an NBA center, two as a bench assistant to Phil Jackson and, most crucially, ranks as the only guy around considered a Jerry Krause sympathizer and a credible coach.
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Glenn Rogers says that Pat Riley needs to forget the notion that the Heat might get back in the playoff hunt, that Larry Brown took another jab at Iverson, that Krause denies there was a power struggle between him and Floyd, that Lucas claims he'd be the best point guard ever if it weren't for drugs, and that Dan Issel got a severance package worth close to the $5 million he was scheduled to be paid this season and next.
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During Media Day in 1997 to usher in the new season, Jerry Krause, general manager of the Chicago Bulls, was questioned by reporters wondering how the franchise would fare once Michael Jordan retired.
"Players don't win championships," Krause responded. "Organizations win championships."
Krause was trying to convey that becoming a championship-caliber team isn't as simplistic as being lucky enough to land a superstar. An organization must be astute at talent evaluation to bring in role players.
And the right coach is needed to guide the personnel.
Despite those valid points, Krause's words revealed jealousy that Jordan received most of the glory for Chicago's success during the 1990s.
But after forcing Coach Tim Floyd to resign last week, Krause confirmed that Chicago's six titles had little to do with his vision.
Krause, who inherited Jordan after Rod Thorn selected him in 1985, must have compromising pictures of owner Jerry Reinsdorf. That's as good an explanation as any for why Krause remains in power.
The Bulls are a case study that rebuilding is fraught with perils that can set a team back for years. But more than anything, it shows that management, which misconstrues fortune for brilliance, can turn a once-proud franchise into a laughingstock.
Krause's master plan began after the Bulls won the 1998 title. He decided not to re-sign Jordan, Scottie Pippen, Dennis Rodman and Coach Phil Jackson.
Looking toward the future can be prudent, but Krause's initially questionable decisions have turned out to be stupefying.
Over the summer, Krause traded for Charles Oakley, ostensibly to help groom Chicago's younger players.
Last season, Oakley slapped two opposing players in separate incidents. It wasn't long before Oakley made derisive public comments about Floyd that brought a $50,000 fine.
Before the 2001 draft, Chicago traded Elton Brand to the Los Angeles Clippers for the No. 2 pick, which turned out to be Tyson Chandler, a high-school star. Unless Chandler becomes the next Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, the move borders on incompetence.
The 22-year-old Brand averaged 20 points and 10 rebounds during his first two seasons. And almost as significant, Brand was a classy player with a strong work ethic who showed optimism about Chicago's future.
Most players would have demanded a trade after Chicago's summer of 2000, when everything was supposed to come together like a finished Rubik's cube.
The Bulls had millions to offer to Grant Hill, Tim Duncan and Tracy McGrady.
But players like Glen Rice used the Bulls to get more financial attention elsewhere. And Chicago had to overpay Ron Mercer, whose NBA career achievement consists of scoring for losing teams.
Krause deserves credit for contributing to Chicago's championships with some prudent moves: fleecing the Sonics in the Olden Polynice-for-Pippen trade; hiring Phil Jackson out of the CBA; selecting Horace Grant in the 1987 draft; and dealing Oakley for center Bill Cartwright despite Jordan's objections.
Although Reinsdorf has been overlooked in Chicago's troubles, the aloof owner deserves almost as much blame as Krause. Reinsdorf sided with Krause while passing on hiring Jordan into management upon retirement.
And in the summer of 1996, Reinsdorf showed that ego and arrogance are part of his organization's culture.
Jordan became a free agent after the Bulls defeated the Sonics in the 1996 NBA Finals. Jordan had been the NBA's best bargain during the first four championships before Chicago signed him to a record one-year deal for $33 million.
"We shook hands, but one comment stuck with me when we left," Jordan recalled in a revealing interview years ago with the New Yorker. "And I lost total respect for (Reinsdorf) when he said it: 'I know I'm going to regret what we just did.' "
Now, Bulls fans regret Krause's philosophy that organizations win championships.
The two Jerrys have shown that in Chicago's case it was mostly the players — especially someone named Michael Jordan.
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Bulls Dec 2001 Archive
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| Dec 30, 2001
Chicago
- Maybe John Lucas was right.
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| Dec 30, 2001
Bill Cartwright has played for a No.
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| Dec 30, 2001
As the Heat mulls a major rebuilding program built around huge salary cap space in 2003, coach/president Pat Riley and owner Micky Arison should examine the Chicago Bulls and determine what not to do.
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| Dec 30, 2001
Are times changing in cold, windy Chicago? Bill Cartwright and his two assistants Pete Myers and Bill Berry took the court for the first time as the Chicago Bulls coaching staff Saturday as the Bulls took on Cleveland, Cartwright declaring he wasn't nervous.
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| Dec 29, 2001
Tip-off: 8:30 tonight at United Center.
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| Dec 28, 2001
DALLAS - Against the worst team in the league, the Mavericks saw their seven-game streak of scoring at least 100 points end Thursday night.
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| Dec 28, 2001
Cartwright is to be the center of attention in Chicago
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| Dec 28, 2001
Before we begin we had better get the official business over with.
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| Dec 28, 2001
At 38 years of age there are bound to be nights where Michael Jordan will struggle in his third comeback, expecially in back-to-back games like last night's against Indiana.
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| Dec 27, 2001
Krause is looking for a head coach who could have great relationship with the players.
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| Dec 26, 2001
One may joke that Jerry Krause will hire the best high school coach but Jay Mariotti of Chicago Sun-Times is tired of laughing.
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| Dec 26, 2001
Jerry Krause is looking for someone who is loyal to him to give him the head coach position.
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| Dec 26, 2001
On paper, the Chicago Bulls job sounds like a good one.
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| Dec 26, 2001
CHICAGO
Jerry Krause said he doesn't regret breaking up the Michael Jordan-led dynasty or rebuilding with two teenagers even though the team is now one of the worst in the National Basketball Association.
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| Dec 26, 2001
Within two weeks, the Chicago Bulls will meet their new head coach.
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| Dec 26, 2001
The relationship between the coach and the players was an important factor for Tim Floyd’s resignation, according to Roman Modrowski of the Chicago Sun-Times.
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| Dec 24, 2001
Merry Christmas! I quit!
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| Dec 23, 2001
Wally Szczerbiak probably could have his face plastered on billboards throughout Chicago had the Timberwolves ever pursued a rumored trade with the Bulls that would have delivered the sharpshooting forward to the league's third-largest market.
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| Dec 23, 2001
A couple of years ago, on one of those middle-of-the-night bus rides so common in professional sports, Pat Williams sidled up to B.
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| Dec 22, 2001
Charles Oakley should bill the Raptors for his coaching services.
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| Dec 22, 2001
Last summer the Chicago Bulls almost completed a deal for Minnesota's Wally Szczerbiak that would have sent Ron Mercer and Marcus Fizer back to the Twin Cities.
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| Dec 22, 2001
Eddy Curry hasn’t played at all during past 4 games, and don't think for a second that he his hurt.
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| Dec 21, 2001
THE REAL WORLD is full of revisionist history.
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| Dec 21, 2001
Charles Oakley has accused Glen Grunwald of being vindictive.
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| Dec 21, 2001
Most players wouldn't dare comment on another team's struggles, especially if they were playing on their league's worst club.
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| Dec 21, 2001
Ron Artest made his season debut last night in Toronto while Charles Oakley re-visited the place he called home for the last three seasons -- with mixed results.
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| Dec 20, 2001
Charles Oakley does not think the Raptors are getting a decent return on the money they spent last summer.
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| Dec 20, 2001
As Ron Artest and he is a certainty to guard Vince Carter tonight, but ask Tim Floyd and the question of whether or not Artest will be activated in time is an open ended one.
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| Dec 19, 2001
Chicago forward Charles Oakley, a free agent after the season, said three
weeks ago that the Cavaliers are one of four teams he would consider joining for next season.
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| Dec 19, 2001
There's no place like home for Charles Oakley, especially when the 17-year pro can play in front of friends and family at Gund Arena like he did last night.
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| Dec 19, 2001
Cavaliers forward Brian Skinner had a pregame meeting with Coach John Lucas to discuss playing time.
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| Dec 18, 2001
They didn't meet for milk shakes last night.
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| Dec 18, 2001
Tip-off: 7 tonight at Gund Arena.
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| Dec 18, 2001
When DeSagana Diop, Eddy Curry and Tyson Chandler get reacquainted today, they have every right to congratulate themselves.
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| Dec 16, 2001
On the seventh night of Hanukkah, 10 days before Christmas, a gift for the Atlanta Hawks, one earned with a few big plays at the end, but a gift nonetheless.
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| Dec 15, 2001
With a little more than eight minutes remaining Friday night, Tyson Chandler rose clear for a rim-wrecking dunk off an alley-oop pass from Charles Oakley.
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| Dec 15, 2001
Miller made a sincere apology to Kevin Hurst after kicking a chair into the United Center stands as he was frustrated for a no foul call.
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| Dec 14, 2001
Hassell had his chance to start for the Bulls when Eddie Robinson and Ron Artest went out with injuries.
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| Dec 13, 2001
A quarter of the season is gone but none of the former High School players (Chandler, Brown, Curry and Diop) are among top 40 players on any category.
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| Dec 13, 2001
If it were up to Ron Artest, he would have been back in uniform two weeks ago.
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| Dec 13, 2001
Chandler sat for the first 34 minutes against New Jersey.
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| Dec 12, 2001
In the last step before surgery, Robinson received a cortisone shot Monday, and the foot was still numb before the Bulls' game Tuesday against the New Jersey Nets.
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| Dec 12, 2001
Saturday is the first day that players acquired in off-season trades can be dealt and even though Oakley would not mind being traded, he won’t ask for it.
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| Dec 11, 2001
When everybody was thinking that Elton Brand was happy in Chicago, we found a piece of news from the Journal Sentinel posted on June 30 where it’s reported that Brand was pressing Krause to trade him and that because Krause was afraid to not be able to re-sign him, he traded for Tyson Chandler.
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| Dec 11, 2001
Lacy Banks of Chicago Sun-Times bullet point some points that Bulls coach Tim Floyd made when after he confronted to writers who reported he was trying to get Jerry Krause fired.
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| Dec 11, 2001
Marcus Fizer's average 23.
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| Dec 11, 2001
The reason why Bulls chairman Reinsdorf visited the Berto Center on Monday is unknown.
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| Dec 10, 2001
Charles Oakley is not a happy man.
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| Dec 9, 2001
Indiana.. Cleveland.. Afghanistan.. Oakley would rather be anywhere but Chicago
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| Dec 9, 2001
Chicago Bulls prevailed when two of the most successful franchises in NBA history, but struggling recently, faced each other.
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| Dec 8, 2001
It was the first time this season Charles Oakley did not start, and only the 2nd time he didn't start since the 1995-96 season.
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| Dec 8, 2001
Just like Tim Floyd, Isiah Thomas started his NBA career as a coach on a rebuilding team.
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| Dec 8, 2001
INDIANAPOLIS - As long as Eddie Robinson and Ron Artest remain on the injured list, there appears to be an impenetrable ceiling on the Bulls' success.
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| Dec 8, 2001
Jamaal Tinsley opened the eyes of Chicago Bulls coach Tim Floyd.
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| Dec 7, 2001
Kwame in the Windy City?
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| Dec 7, 2001
Bulls rookie Eddy Curry turned 19 on Wednesday, but he didn't get any presents or do much celebrating.
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| Dec 7, 2001
Team captain Charles Oakley wasn't jumping to any conclusions about the team getting out of the woods.
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| Dec 7, 2001
Smith knows how to press Floyd's buttons
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| Dec 6, 2001
The Magic's head coach and best player still are miffed at their front office because Bo Outlaw was traded.
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| Dec 6, 2001
It felt like a happy-hour repeat at TD Waterhouse Centre.
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| Dec 6, 2001
Coaching the Chicago Bulls was supposed to be the highlight of Tim Floyd's career, a chance to work with Michael Jordan, the greatest basketball player in history.
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| Dec 6, 2001
The Chicago Bears already have won nine games in their season.
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| Dec 6, 2001
Grant Hill didn't play again and Tracy McGrady showed up late after getting a flat tire.
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| Dec 6, 2001
With the Bulls possibly being in the market for a new head coach in the future, would they consider Charles Oakley? Oakley for one thinks he'd make a good coach, being able to relate to players' needs and how they should be treated.
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| Dec 6, 2001
Bulls center Brad Miller said he was greatly relieved when he was fined only $7,500 for kicking a chair into the stands during a 93-76 loss to the Philadelphia 76ers on Saturday.
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| Dec 6, 2001
Playing the role once again of wounded and overmatched animal, the Bulls on Wednesday were tracked down by a Hunter.
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| Dec 6, 2001
We have seen this before.
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| Dec 5, 2001
To get this low, the Rockets had to hit rock bottom -- and keep on digging.
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| Dec 5, 2001
Magic host Bulls
Who: Orlando Magic (9-9) vs.
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| Dec 5, 2001
Coach Tim Floyd is sick of losing, sick of bad management decisions and sick of veteran Charles Oakley’s talk.
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| Dec 5, 2001
The NBA fined Bulls center Brad Miller $7,500 on Tuesday but did not suspend him for kicking a chair into the stands, grazing a fan.
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| Dec 4, 2001
Michael Jordan visited former Chicago Bulls physician John Hefferon to examine his right knee.
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| Dec 4, 2001
Bulls operations chief Jerry Krause will not levy a fine or suspension against center Brad Miller for kicking a chair into the stands Saturday, at least not until he speaks to Miller and NBA senior vice president of basketball operations Stu Jackson today.
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| Dec 4, 2001
K.
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| Dec 4, 2001
Floyd is in Chicago to stay
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| Dec 3, 2001
Michael Jordan's knee is hurt and he is coming home to Chicago for help.
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| Dec 3, 2001
Ex-Bull Michael Ruffin is alive and well and happy to be a Philadelphia 76ers reserve.
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| Dec 3, 2001
Lacy Banks of Chicago Sun-Times believes that Tim Floyd will not finish this season as Bulls head coach.
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| Dec 3, 2001
According to Paul Ladewski of Daily Southtown, Eddie Robinson reported no improvement in his troublesome left big toe after a rigorous workout Friday.
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| Dec 2, 2001
Portland's Bonzi Wells had surgery to repair a torn anterior cruciate ligament in his knee last April and was back on the court six months later for opening night of the 2001-02 regular season.
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| Dec 1, 2001
Scottie Pippen has never been the same player since two discs popped out of his back during the 1998 season, which is good news for the Bulls - who didn't sign him to a big contract, and bad news for Houston and Portland who have paid for his success in Chicago.
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| Dec 1, 2001
Roman Modrowski of the Chicago Sun-Times reports that when guard Allen Iverson returned to the Sixers, a team that was 0-5 at that point immediately turned it around.
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| Dec 1, 2001
Guyton, a second-year guard, is a hard-working and sweet-shooting player.
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