The entire world was transfixed on ESPN’s “The Last Dance” on Sunday night for all of the right reasons. Everyone wanted to see the story behind the 1997-98 Chicago Bulls. It was incredible to look back on the foolishness that was the Chicago Bulls’ front office making the biggest mistake or should I say the dumbest decision in the history of sports.
General Manager Jerry Krause intentionally got rid of the best coach in the league after he’s already won 6 championship in sets of three’s within a matter of 8 seasons. What was so crazy is that the owner allowed this foolishness to happen against the wishes of arguably the best player in the universe. Micheal Jeffery Jordan was completely against it.
For those of us that lived through it and especially those of us that lived in the Chicago area at the time. It was insane for Reinsdorf to even be considering tearing the team apart. It was the Chicago Bulls! Just 15 or 20 years earlier they were horrendous. NOBODY even watched the Bulls. The DePaul Blue Demons were the basketball team of choice in Chicago.
Can you imagine some fool trying to fire a coach that has just won 6 championships in a matter of 8 seasons to bring in his homeboy? Not only that, but to fire him against the wishes of the best player on the freakin’ planet!!! That’s insane!!!
The Bulls were on top of the world and this dun Reinsdorf got jealous and destroyed the team that he actually built. Who does that?
Like Jordan said in the documentary and I’m paraphrasing, “The Cubs have been rebuilding for 45 years. It doesn’t make since to rebuild now. At least let us lose first.” That was realist thing spoken in that episode. The Bulls haven’t been worth two dead flies smashed since.
I can remember when it all went down and boyz would sit around the barbershop saying, “They’ve got at least two more in them bruh. Why not milk it until the well runs dry?”
Jerry Krause will forever be known as the village idiot that destroyed the Bulls in its prime with the greatest player known to man still willing to play. THEY WERE WINNING. Stop me when I start lyin’!
