The late general manager\u2019s widow was left in tears by Chicago fans. They forget he helped build a team that gave them great joy<\/p>\n
When Krause\u2019s name was announced among the 13 inaugural inductees, a sizable number of the 21,000-odd spectators at the United Center booed him long and lustily as Thelma sat on front row center between the son of the late Hall of Fame coach Jerry Sloan (a star guard for the Bulls in the \u201960s and \u201970s) and longtime assistant coach Tex Winter, mastermind of the triangle offense. Ron Harper, the rugged point man for the second half of the Bulls\u2019 \u201990s run, consoled Thelma as she dissolved into tears and threw up her hands, as if crying uncle. \u201cI was totally unprepared for the reaction,\u201d she would say in a later statement<\/a> to the TV news magazine Inside Edition. \u201cI can\u2019t call them fans because a fan would know better.\u201d<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The late general manager\u2019s widow was left in tears by Chicago fans. They forget he helped build a team that gave them great joy Last Friday the Chicago Bulls held a halftime ceremony to unveil their Ring of Honor, a pantheon reserved for the organization\u2019s greatest contributors, but many of them couldn\u2019t make it. Michael … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1774\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
<\/strong>Last Friday the Chicago Bulls held a halftime ceremony to unveil their Ring of Honor, a pantheon reserved for the organization\u2019s greatest contributors, but many of them couldn\u2019t make it. Michael Jordan and Scottie Pippen are feuding<\/a> as a wedding between Michael\u2019s eldest son and Pippen\u2019s ex-wife<\/a> draws near. Dennis Rodman was waylaid by weather, he says. Jerry Krause, the architect of the team\u2019s 1990s dynasty, died in 2017 \u2013 leaving his 80-year-old wife, Thelma, to represent him on court with her children and grandchildren sprinkled among the crowd. She came dressed in black \u2013 a sign, maybe, that the loss of her husband is still fresh in her mind. In hindsight, she would have been better off staying home.<\/p>\n