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...director of basketball operations. This means that Phil Jackson could theoretically come back and perform his Zen magic on the Bulls. If he comes back, so will Michael Jordan, who has vowed never to work for "Pink," as he calls Floyd. If Jordan comes back, Scottie Pippen might too. However, Jackson has made it pretty clear that he won't come back. Maybe the Jerrys just want Jordan to know they really, really tried. Jordan has that nice little vacation known as a lockout to help him think it over. And as always, nobody ever knows what Dennis Rodman...
...Phil Jackson, who publicly feuds with both blowhard Bulls general manager Jerry Krause and cheapskate owner Jerry Reinsdorf. Jordan steadfastly refuses to play without Jackson. That could probably be resolved (suck it up for one more year, Krause). But Jordan, 35, most likely won't return without sidekick Scottie Pippen. Pippen originally refused to play this year, despises Krause even more than do Jackson and Jordan (who, high-school-style, doesn't say hi to Krause when they pass in the halls). In fact, he is so eager to go to another team to prove he's the second-best...
...Jazz were well rested, were playing at home at an altitude of some 4,500 feet and were on a roll after inhaling the seemingly mighty Lakers. In truth, they were not that much younger, and what he saw was the matchups: their significantly smaller guards going against him, Pippen, Ron Harper and even Toni Kukoc. He clearly liked these matchups, much more than he had liked what Bird was able to throw at him. He remained upbeat even after the Bulls lost Game 1 to the Jazz in overtime...
...games were rarely shoot-outs. Nor were they always artistic, or if they were artistic, it was only for those fans who loved the concept of skilled, highly intelligent players' stealing another team's game in front of a national audience. In these big games, even when Jordan and Pippen were not shooting well, they would forgo their jump shots, drive to the basket, and at the very least shoot fouls and slowly take over the tempo of the game. They knew how to grind down other teams when they did not have all of their game. In Game...
...Scottie Pippen, of course, prospered under Jordan's tutelage in practice; he had arrived in the league with great but raw natural skills, virtually untutored. He had unusually long arms, a wingspan that exceeded Jordan's and allowed him to play in the backcourt with the quickness of a guard and the reach of a center; as such he had, if anything, even greater potential as a defensive player than Jordan. Nothing in those early years helped him more than playing against Jordan every day in practice, for Jordan was both a teacher and a killer in practice...