Word: calls
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Time to kick back, call a few friends and get ready for Felicity, right? Not even close. Next Molly pulls out her math assignment: more than 100 fraction and long-division problems. Once she slogs through those, Molly labels all the countries and bodies of water on a map of the Middle East. And she's not through yet: she then reviews a semester's worth of science, including the ins and outs of the circulatory system...
MONDAY, JAN. 4: Reinsdorf flies to New York City for the final owners' meeting before the Jan. 6 deadline set for canceling the NBA season. From the plane he tries to call Jordan who, he discovers, is in the Bahamas playing golf. He phones Jordan's agent, David Falk, who can't reach his client. Reinsdorf then calls Jackson at his new house in upstate New York to ask whether he won't change his mind about coaching. Jackson pleasantly chuckles a no, probably holds back on offering a koan about one-year contracts...
THURSDAY, JAN. 7: The NBA will not allow owners to call agents until Friday. In his office on the second floor of the Berto Center in Chicago, general manager Krause looks down at an empty practice floor. On his wall hangs a felt board listing every NBA team's players, categorized under lists: free agents, injured, on roster. Under the Bulls' on-roster section, it lists only Ron Harper, Toni Kukoc, Keith Booth and Randy Brown. Free agents: the 10 other players, including Jordan, Scottie Pippen and Dennis Rodman. Below them are listed three draft picks the Bulls have...
FRIDAY, JAN. 8: At 5 p.m. the NBA allows owners to call agents. There are many busy signals. NBA security officials are sent to every team's practice facilities to prevent management from talking directly to players before Jan. 18, the first official practice day. The Bulls' war room, a large conference space with six phones and a fax machine overlooking the practice court, is empty. From his house, outside Chicago, Krause calls Pippen's agent, Kyle Rote--because he's not yet allowed to talk to Pippen directly and also because Pippen despises Krause and hardly speaks...
SATURDAY AND SUNDAY, JAN. 9-10: Krause continues to call virtually every agent of everyone who has ever played a game of basketball in which score was kept...