A Battle of Raging Egos dismantled the Chicago Bulls systematically in the late 90s 

Totally agree, I wouldn't trade being a 90's kid for the world. It would have been nice to be in my 20's at that time, but it's all good, I still appreciate living through the times.

Jerry tried to show that he could do it without MJ, Scotty, and Phil, and it failed horribly

Indeed

I was born in 1990 so I would've remembered their last few championships if I had been paying attention. One of my biggest regrets not to.

Thanks for saving us time to know why bro.

same way he runs the White Sox

So why did Krause make it his business to let the entire world know that no matter what happened, the team will not be back?? So Jerry told him to give that emotional jealous speech the way he did?? I believe it was both. Jerry didn't want to pay, and Krause didn't want the team together anymore.

Thanks for this information bro

He paid Jordan over 30 million in 97 and 98 which was unheard of at the time.

Those baby Bulls years gave y'all some hope followed by D.Rose.

@@g6686not I never liked D. Rose. He was always soft in every sense of the word - extremely overrated.

The DRose 🌹 Bulls 🐂 were very very very good. His injury 🩸 just wrecked a homegrown kid from fulfilling a city's dream.

@@alecsanderhamilton9224 , even with a healthy Rose, those Bulls teams were never going to get passed Lebron. Trust me, I wanted them to, but I was realistic.

@@silvianosanchez8430 they had a chance. 2012 they had a shot with a healthy DRose 🌹 to beat the 12 HeaT... The 11 Mavs got em and 14 Spurs got em we coulda had em.

How would you know what would not happen? A different coach could of came in and took the Bulls to a championship. Or, Mike could of left the Bulls for a different team. No one knows what could of happen just accept what did happen.

AGREE… Jordan wanted to keep Collins as the coach and didn’t want Jackson… He also didn’t want Tex winters triangle offense philosophy Krause got Pippin I love me some Jordan but Jordan and Phil found out QUICK it’s not that easy and simple to build championship teams

It only took 5 years for Krause to get run out of the league after breaking up the team. His draft picks and GM moves afterwards were clueless. He did a great job building around an elite talent, but he clearly thought he was more responsible for the teams success than the greatest player of all time.

​@@filho4437TRUE. He made a nice 99-00 foundation of Elton Brand and Ron Artest... But yes, he didnt have that masterful engine 🚂 like Jordan to just make pretty around the soul of the machine. Brand lasted what two seasons? Artest 3? Then drafted Chandler and Curry? Curry obviously the softer one there. Jalen Rose? Fizer? Heinrich? I think that John Paxson eventually. He started to put together the positive Baby 🍼 Bulls 🐂 after the negative Krause Baby 🍼 Bulls 🐂... Still no Jordan.

Krause got a bad wrap, they don’t win without his moves. He should have just been given more credit & I believe it’s different. He said organizations win championships, which is true but the media ran with it & turned the statement into the front office is the reason they won when all he meant was it took them all .

A bit short sightedness from Reinsdoof as well, Jerry’s fucked their own dynasty beyond all recognition

Reinsdorf is the guy who makes the final decisions. He was a cheap POS who didn't want to pay his players.

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Cap Oakley told same story

@@fresh2def23231 1. Go look at the date when Oakley was traded 2. See if Tyson fought in Vegas that month

Yeah slower paced in the 00s than the 90s... The league was paced by the old school of the Magic Bird and Jordan eras..They had curated the game to their styles and the Kobe and Garnett eras with their highschool beginnings were kind of constrained and slow to unravel those veteran styles cemented in the league culture by the guys who matter of factly raised the game's profile to challenging Soccer ⚽ as a world 🌎🌍 game... Bird and Magic came into a largely disinterested NBA culture 🧫, allowing them freedom to really smack the league upright and off balance so they could win a few rings while also establishing a sort of style that was their own without earning their stripes before hand but instead instantaneously earning stripes and reprogramming the league in their images... This before the league stabilized to their winning attitudes... Bird says the NBA was different and for real by the 1984 Finals, when the Lakers and Celtics re-engaged horns in the finals🤘 and then Jordan and Olajuwon and Barkley followed in the 84 draft and then came Ewing, & Malone & Dumars and they cemented with Isiah Thomas and Kevin McHale and Dominique Wilkins and Clyde Drexler and James Worthy from pre 84 draft's what the NBA was all of a sudden which was thick with really committed gym rats that loved basketball 🏀 first, cocaine third or fourth, pussy definitely second, but basketball 🏀#1 above all even money 😁💰, and they still had the hybrid old school money mentality middle class mentality, gratefulness and hunger to earn more and innovate more and participate harder, and raise the integrity of the game collectively... And that lasted strongly that generation from about 84-93 and the scores and the pace was still comparable to the 70's and early 80's... The game started to slow down more from 88-93 but was still fast comparatively to what would become of the mid to late 90's and 2000's up until about 2011 and into the mid 2010's when then Curry and Golden State and Harden and Houston and Durant and OKC ratcheted up the old 88-89 Knicks and D'Antoni and 93-94 Rockets and 94-95 Magic's 3 and paint and run break and gun philosophies... and then the game reopened up to the mid 80's scoring and pace levels then rose higher to early 80's levels and now is on its own journey and competing with the greatest scoring levels in NBA History and moving faster than it ever has... They really opened it all up... But yes 84-93 saw the shift from wide open, high body movement within the key, transition basketball 🏀 of the Bird and Magic and Isiah and Dr. J and Kareem eras to the back you down, iso, pick and roll, 3 and key Jordan, Olajuwon, Barkley, Ewing, Wilkins, Drexler, Robinson eras... Then of course by 91-93 the game had become Jordan's world 🌎🌍 and the next generation were hungry rich kids like SHAQ, Mourning, Coleman, Larry Johnson, Penny Hardaway, Chris Webber, Grant Hill, Jason Kidd, Kevin Garnett, Kobe and Iverson and you got these guys now expected to right away produce like Jordan in 84 instead of join a big 3 scoring unit like Drexler in 83 had with Vandeghwe and Paxson... The league was paying these high schoolers big moneys 🤑💰 to play and sell sneakers, and highlight reel, and cross you over, and break you down and taunt you on LIVE television 📺 and dunk on you and build individual rivalries 1on1 to plaster two faces of a franchise on pregame introductions and videogames... Sell over and over again, Magic vs Bird, Magic vs Isiah, Isiah vs Jordan, Jordan vs Magic, Jordan vs Drexler, Jordan vs Barkley, Olajuwon vs Barkley, Olajuwon vs Ewing... And the three man weave teams of Alex English and Mark Aguirre and Adrian Dantley were pretty much gone... It was the duo they were packaging as the league expanded and teams talent were spread throughout the league 2 stars, 1 near star, 6th man and role players or 1 star, 2 near stars, 6th man and role players, or 3 near stars, 6th man and role players... Then the Garnett Danny Ainge save his job deal in 07 inspired the 11 LeBron Big 3 deal that brought back the 3 stars, 3 20 pt scorers on a team ambition. But the league was inspired in the 90's by Jordan and the Bad Boy Pistons so the Knicks, Rockets 3 and key and thick D came into existence and the establishing offense to feed one guy like Jordan in the triangle, K. Malone in the Stockton Sloan yo yo and crossover guard for forward picks motion offenses flourished, the 3 and key Knicks, Spurs, Rockets, Magic, Suns offenses. The eventual Joe Dumars Pistons and Twin Tower 🗼🗼 Spurs pinching offenses to 69-79 ppg when the 91 Bulls and Lakers averaged 105-110 ppg and those were slow championship teams by the standard bearing Magic teams in the 80's. Yes in 1998, the NBA was Jordan's league. And from about 99-03 it remained his league even without him 3 of those 5 years and 2002 he almost showed it was still his he was that good and the league had not yet evolved past his legendary grip on the game. Yes Jordan and Chicago could have won 2 more rings, 3 more rings, 2 of 4, 3 of 5, for 8 in 12, 9 in 13 or so like Russell from 91-02 or 03... And the league still moved like and for the likes of K. Malone until his retirement in 04. And for Jordan in Washington until Kobe hit em for 55 in 03 and that was a wake up call 🤙 to Jordan that those three years off (99-01), your age, and attrition and my ambition (Kobe), yes even your time is up (Michael).

That is a nice dream btw... Man if only. U would think Reinsdorf would have wanted to break the bank 🏦 a little for Krause to show up Jordan and Jackson a little bit and ensure Krause stayed a winner in the media's eyes after Jordan and co. Left. Why go thru all that trouble, 😵‍💫 fight for your homie, show ur loyalty to the Penguin 🐧 and not Superman, Batman and Rodman and Alfred just to vanquish the good guys, keep the villain and then screw him over by not locking up Duncan or McGrady or Hill or any of them and building thru the draft after a dysmal 99 season? He should have paid high ransom to ensure Timmy at least. He was a champion 🏆 already. Hard to say you overpaid for that proven youthful commodity that is 7 feet tall and sturdy...

I like ur team dreams and fairy tale trades... Harper and Burrell for Eddie Jones? I like it... What else they give up though? Phil Jackson, money and draft picks? Because that's the hardest part Jackson was not staying... U can't say you'll keep Jackson. He was driving a hard bargain with lots of chips with 6 titles in 9 seasons of professional head coaching in the NBA. He could ask for the roof, and wanted Krause's job if not his head... He wanted BIG BOSS credit 💳. He was coaching Jordan, and not the GM... Only so much credit left for Jackson in Chicago. Jackson wanted and needed a break and went to Los Angeles to guide SHAQ and Kobe. Eddie Jones was gone by 99... Who do the Bulls hire as head coach in 99 if Jordan miraculously stays in Chicago in 99? Tim Floyd was near cemented in the 99 role as Bulls 🐂 Head Coach. So Jordan, Pippen and Rodman behind Floyd? Yeah, tough sell. That's what unraveled everything. Krause not pandering to Jackson, Jackson not willing to slum under Krause any longer. Jordan and Pippen and Rodman being Jackson's guys not Krause's. The threading 🧵 was just not there anymore. The best scenario for Jordan would have been go to New York and fight with Ewing vs Robinson in 99 and Duncan and SHAQ and Kobe in 00... Pippen in Houston and then Portland by 00 flirting a Jordan vs Pippen 2000 NBA Finals. 99 and 00 Knicks vs Pacers ECF's Jordan vs Miller and Bird again... And Rodman floundering in Los Angeles in 99 and Dallas in 2000. But those fairy tale trades for the sake of trying to extend a dynasty are fascinating... Duncan, 00 free agent. Eddie Jones for Harper and Burrell, with possibly something else involved although Jones was moved for space for Kobe and Harper did play for Los Angeles in 00 and 01... Burrell instead of Glen Rice? I mean, people rush to buy without seeing all product out there I suppose... Tracy McGrady, Grant Hill by 2000?... In trade by 99? Pippen for Hill? Pippen for McGrady? Pippen in Toronto with Carter and Oakley and Willis and Antonio Davis is a nice team, veterans with the young Aire Apparently Jordan Tar Heel... Ben Wallace wasn't on anybody's radar until 01 right? How long is Jordan's window 🪟 post 98? CWebb cool. Jordan Pippen CWebb? Jordan Duncan Pippen? Jordan McGrady Duncan? Jordan Wallace Kukoc Eddie Jones Pippen? The math that'd go into all this would give me a heart attack and all these names circa this time period. No wonder they blew it up !!!! Said, fuck Pippen's paycheck. Jordan, good riddance, I can build a champion without ya! Jackson, syonara you wanna bee Cacique cultural appropriator full of shit beanstalk! I'll get Duncan! I'll get Hill ! I'll get McGrady!!!! I'll get all 3!!!! How much they want? I'll draft Elton Brand !!!!! Ahhhhhhhhhhh

Small man complex

It’s the most baffling thing

The Last Dance documentary because it showed more of Jordan and it made it look like it was all him. Each member really didnt get much screen time apparently but also Pippin was releasing a book at the time he said that. But Pippin then admitted he didnt go to Jordans father funeral and Jordon didnt know that or didnt console him and Jordan was pissed.

They all were important to their success, they don’t win without Krause moves, Jordan’s scoring, Phil’s coaching & Scotties all around play.

@@Supreme36074Starts with Jordan and ends with Jordan

I say this all the time. There is no 3 peat without the rest & then pickup of Rodman.

He "retired" those two seasons because he was suspended for gambling. Playing baseball was just something that he used to fill his time and further his ego.

@@user-hd7he7vy4s You’re pretty special if you believe that rumor.

Jordan stated in the video the franchise went from 12 million to a couple hundred million... reinsdorf made out.. but its everyone's ego... but definitely the Jerry's...

Facts. He made a ton more from multiple endorsements, Nike, etc

Jordan was underpaid for years as well. Not just Pippen.

@@Renegade-jk4ux he just didn’t whine about it every second he got like pip

@@Se0420_he didn’t have to he had 30 million a year of endorsement money. & knew his contract was coming to a end while he was talking about Pips… Jordan knew his pay day was coming regardless. & Pip couldn’t get those endorsements because they were already given to Mike. No team had two superstars in their prime to the point so no company would pay two from the same team.

@@Supreme36074 endorsement money has nothing to do with nba contract money. That’s just idiotic to think one has a weight on the other. And you do know pip had endorsements right? you think MJ the only player who had endorsements? even larry johnson had endorsements. Pip was a shitty businessman. It’s not up to MJ to look after pip pockets. he a grown ass man. Pip own agent and the owner both told pip NOT to sign the contract and he did it anyway. and you somehow blame MJ?? that’s nonsense. This is the same guy who bought a 10 million dollar plane with no engine that he never laid eyes on. Pip made a ton of bad investments outside of basketball. MJ didn’t

Those teams that be built that helped Jordan win six championships and then win 55 games without him would say otherwise. Plus he got Phil Jackson. JK was one hell of a good GM and did his job tremendously well.

You do need a team in any sport to win but I will say that in basketball, one guy can affect the outcome of a game more than in any other sport.

So?