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...noon Jordan phones Reinsdorf to say he's retiring. Jordan then calls commissioner Stern. At 10:45 p.m., Associated Press reports the news...
...that wasn't all Chicago was losing, as it will begin to realize this week. Though Bulls owner Jerry Reinsdorf and general manager Jerry Krause knew that Michael Jordan and head coach Phil Jackson were unlikely to return, they had held out hope. And they couldn't stem the player exodus that would follow Jordan's retirement. Suddenly, with the season starting on Feb. 2, the Bulls had only four signed players. If they didn't do something fast, it was going to be really easy for opponents to double team Toni Kukoc, now their premiere player. Here...
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...
TUESDAY, JAN. 12: For a while, Krause and Reinsdorf take a break from the phone, in what they call a mourning period. "When you finally hear Michael Jordan is retiring, you don't just shake that off. That's 13 years of your life. You don't just go to Plan B," says Bulls p. r. director Tim Hallam...
...latest installment of As the Basketball Turns, the continuing saga of that winning but tortured team, the Chicago Bulls. In this episode, the two Jerrys--Krause and Reinsdorf, vice president and chairman of the team--present TIM FLOYD, a college coach and fishing buddy of Krause's with no NBA experience, not as the new coach but as the 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...