golf relationship with Flukey Stokes, and him constantly losing money to flukey. And will they go in on his gambling, especially his gambling in jersey during the 1993 eastern conference finals.


I'm just glad people outside of illinois are seeing just how much of a shit show it was , and how tormenting that season was.

Can you imagine winning a championship, and you go to the post championship game interview, and you're immediately hit with questions regarding the team breaking up and Phil not coming back?

That's all it was for the entire season...Phil not coming back, jordan not coming back, pippen and his contract, rodman and his crap off the court, etc, etc. Their play declined, and Indiana was dead on our heels all season long.

One thing people fail to realize is that the bulls were the second oldest team in the league, and it was clear that the team was regressing, because players were simply getting old, including jordan.


No way should that team have been brought back. So watching Jordan go out on top was the best and greatest thing to do, because the bulls and jordan would have lost the following season. It would have been a different story. Jerry Krause saw it, but he went about in a wrong way.

The reason why Krause no longer wanted Phil is, Phil refused to let Jerry connect with the team. Phil kept jerry out of the locker rooms, and didn't give him access to team meetings. So jerry wanted a coach that he could control, simply as that. People have to understand Jerry Krause bought Phil in as assistant out of the CBA, and groomed him for the position. He gave Phil his start. Phil was Jerry's guy, so for Phil to deny him that way definitely pissed him off, so Phil was no longer welcome.

The funny thing is Phil turned into the same kind of GM as Jerry with the Knicks...He got coaches that he could control, and only wanted them to run the triangle, and had a poor relationship with Carmleo, similar to what Jerry had with Jordan.