How has Michael Jordan surrounded himself with friends at the Charlotte Bobcats organization?
Looking back, Jerry Krause still believes creative tension delivered a greater good to the dynasty. After all, history remembers old champions, not old chums. In the spring, he read Bill Russell’s memoir about his devotion to the Boston Celtics’ patriarch, Red Auerbach, and naturally it made Krause rewind to those days with Michael Jordan when winning came with isolation, without the joy of Jordan’s embrace. As time passes, Krause, the great general manager of the Chicago Bulls, still lives with the gulf between him and Jordan, with a relationship that perspective never bridged, that the years never mended. Maybe they were too stubborn, he says now. Maybe they were just wired too wrong. “It would’ve been nice to have that, but it wasn’t going to happen,” Krause said by phone from his suburban Chicago home. “And it’s probably better that it didn’t, because I don’t think we would’ve won as consistently. Michael was a different cat, and it was a different era of basketball. Sources:
Jordan bought into the Charlotte Bobcats in June 2006 and was assigned the role of managing partner. “He began surrounding himself with familiar faces. Former Bulls teammate and close friend Rod Higgins is the team’s general manager. Larry Brown, with whom Jordan shares a North Carolina pedigree, is the Bobcats’ coach. Assistants Phil Ford and Dave Hanners are also former Tar Heels, as is point guard Raymond Felton, a restricted free agent.” Sources: http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/basketball/bulls/michaeljordan/chi-michael-jordan-chicago-bulls-chapter-12,0,7375073.
