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Bulls general manager resigns for health reasons
The Associated Press
DEERFIELD, Ill. — Jerry Krause was certain he did the right thing, breaking up one Chicago Bulls dynasty to build the foundation for the next.
Even as the losses mounted and frustrations grew, he always believed the Bulls would be champions again and that he'd be vindicated.
It could still happen — but Krause won't be around to see it. Citing health reasons, the Bulls' general manager suddenly resigned yesterday, one week before the season ends.
Krause, 64, left the Bulls' practice facility after telling the team and didn't elaborate on his health problems. But he's been bothered by a variety of ailments in recent years and has had a bad back all season.
"The whole thing is sad,"
guard Jamal Crawford said. "People criticize him a lot for different things ... but he had a vision. And we want to continue that vision.
"We're all saddened that he won't be there to share it with us," Crawford added. "But this is something he started and hopefully we can continue on with it."
There is still plenty of work to be done. Stocked with young talent, the Bulls have shown promise this year. But they're still only 27-50 going into Tuesday night's game against Indiana, and will finish with a losing record for the fifth straight season.
Bulls chairman Jerry Reinsdorf said he plans to hire someone within the next month, giving the new GM time to evaluate the current roster before the draft and free agency. Among the possibilities are former players B.J. Armstrong and John Paxson, both of whom still have ties to the team. Armstrong is a special assistant to Krause, and Paxson is the team's radio analyst.
And what about Michael Jordan? Jordan says he is going back to the front office after his third — and he swears final — retirement, but he doesn't have a deal with the Washington Wizards yet.
Whoever the new GM is, he'll inherit a roster full of promise.
"I think we're headed back in the right direction," coach Bill Cartwright said. "Was there an appropriate time to (break up the championship team)? I don't know. But I do know that right now we definitely have a nice foundation to head back to a championship."
The Bulls could win another six titles, though, and Krause would still be burdened with the
blame for dismantling the championship team and forcing Jordan out of Chicago.
Jordan was already in Chicago when Krause became GM in 1985, but it was Krause who found the pieces that formed a dynasty. His most brilliant move was in 1987, when he maneuvered with Seattle for the draft rights to Scotte Pippen.
Krause also drafted Horace Grant and signed Toni Kukoc, a Croatian star who was a key player on the final three championship teams. He also gambled big by trading for the mercurial Dennis Rodman, whose many eccentricities threatened to outweigh his physical skills.
All of the moves paid off as Chicago won six titles from 1991-98, setting an NBA record with 72 victories in the 1995-96 season. Krause was named the league's executive of the year twice.
"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."
But Krause's people skills weren't always the best, and he alienated Jackson, Jordan and Pippen — often over who should get credit for the championships. When Jackson left and Jordan retired before the lockout-shortened season of 1999, Krause dismantled the team.
"It's a tough decision, and it's anybody's guess," Cartwright said. "My take on it is that those guys weren't coming back, anyway. ... I think that those changes had to be made and you have to go by somebody's word that they're leaving."
Krause gave away virtually any talent the Bulls had, hoping to avoid a long rebuilding process. He planned to stockpile top draft picks and give the cash he was saving to big-name free agents.
But the free agents didn't come, and the losses mounted. Krause then switched course, deciding that the Bulls' future lay with high schoolers Eddy Curry and Chandler.
Tim Floyd, Krause's handpicked successor to Jackson, got so frustrated he didn't thank Kraue publicly when he resigned in December 2001.
Judge turns down request to protest outside Masters
The Associated Press
AUGUSTA, Ga. — On the first day of Masters week, there was more action in court than on the course.
In two separate rulings yesterday, a federal judge turned down Martha Burk's request to protest outside the front gate of Augusta National Golf Club. She wants the club to admit its first female member.
Meanwhile, heavy thunderstorms forced the club to postpone a valuable day of practice for the tournament, which begins Thursday. The gates never opened to fans, either, the first time that's happened during Masters week since 1983.
Rich Beem, winner of the PGA Championship, was eager to play
the course after qualifying for his first Masters. His day ended after about a half-hour on the soggy practice range.
"I wanted to get out early," Beem said. "It's frustrating, but that's how it goes."
Burk is planning to protest Augusta National's all-male membership during the third round of the tournament Saturday.
Burk, who heads the National Council of Women's Organizations, wanted to post 24 demonstrators outside the front gate of Augusta National and 200 more across the street.
But Sheriff Ronald Strength, who has broad authority over public protests, told Burk and other groups the only place they can protest legally is a 5.1-acre
site nearly a half-mile from the gate.
Strength said there's too much traffic along Washington Road, which runs in front of the club, to ensure safe protests.
ACLU lawyers challenged the ordinance, saying it gives the sheriff too much power to approve or deny protests and dictate their location.
U. S. District Judge Dudley H. Bowen Jr. sided with the city.
"The ordinance does not discriminate against a particular viewpoint or limit speech to certain subject matters," he wrote in a 17-page decision.
In a second ruling, Bowen said the sheriff acted properly to enforce the ordinance.
The judge called the area outside Augusta National "profoundly congested" during the Masters and said allowing protesters to congregate outside the gate presents "a realistic, plausible, even probable potential for some accidental injury."
"Obviously, we're disappointed with the ruling," said Gerry Weber, legal director of Georgia ACLU, which filed the suit on Burk's behalf.
Augusta National maintained that it had no interest in the court case.
"As we have said all along, any demonstrations that take place outside our grounds are a matter solely for local authorities," club spokesman Glenn Greenspan said.
The sheriff's office has approved protest permits for nine groups.
Burk and the Rev. Jesse Jackson plan to demonstrate against the all-male membership. Two groups have received permits to protest against Burk. Another group plans to protest against Jackson. A one-man faction of the Ku Klux Klan, who lists Tiger Woods as his favorite golfer, will support Augusta National's rights to private membership.
Another man wants to demonstrate in support of President Bush's war policy.
Then there's Deke Wiggins and his "People Against Ridiculous Protests." Their permit has been approved, too.
Scott Hoch, comfortably dry in the locker room as rain soaked the course, wasn't concerned about what's going on outside the course.
"We're concerned with how we're going to play here," he said.
The few players who hung around the clubhouse chatted about the rain, the course and the war in Iraq. On the big screen in the grill room, CNN was showing images of the war.
"We're thinking and worrying about our people in Iraq," Hoch said. "Even the golf tournament is minuscule compared to that."
The sight of American troops under fire in Iraq has cast a somber pall over the Masters, Hoch said.
"This is just a game," he said. "Over there, they're playing for their lives."
Woods, who will try to become the first player to win three straight Masters, did not show up Monday. Still, it was a good day for him because of all the rain.
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