1 week Ago By Ashish Mathur, Hoops Wire
During an interview with NBA reporter Brandon ‘Scoop B’ Robinson , Detroit Pistons legend Isiah Thomas said Michael Jordan ‘s GM on the Chicago Bulls — Jerry Krause — is “the best general manager in Chicago sports history.” The Bulls won six championships in the ’90s. They went 6-0 in the NBA Finals.
“Jerry Krause is the best general manager in Chicago sports history,” Thomas said. “There’s nobody else as an executive who brought six NBA Championships to the city of Chicago. Name me somebody else who was better!” Jordan and Krause did not have a good relationship.
The two men didn’t get along at all. Still, Chicago had tremendous success in the Jordan-Krause era. The Bulls three-peated twice in the ’90s, with Jordan winning all six Finals MVPs.
Jordan and Thomas didn’t have a good relationship, either. Thomas was the leader of the “Bad Boys,” the team that used to physically hurt Jordan and the Bulls on purpose. Thomas finished his career with averages of 19.
2 points, 3.6 rebounds, 9.3 assists, 1.
9 steals and 0.3 blocks with the Pistons. He made 12 All-Star teams and five All-NBA teams and won the 1990 Finals MVP Award.
Meanwhile, Jordan averaged 30.1 points, 6.2 rebounds, 5.
3 assists, 2.3 steals and 0.8 blocks with the Bulls and Washington Wizards.
He won five MVPs, one Defensive Player of the Year Award, six Finals MVPs, three steals titles and 10 scoring titles with Chicago. Thomas and Jordan are in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame and on the NBA’s 75th Anniversary Team. During the 75th Anniversary Team ceremony in Cleveland in 2022, Jordan and Thomas didn’t talk to each other.
They will never be friends. “I respect Isiah Thomas’ talent,” Jordan said in The Last Dance doc. “To me, the best point guard of all time is Magic Johnson and right behind him is Isiah Thomas.
No matter how much I hate him, I respect his game.” This article first appeared on Hoops Wire and was syndicated with permission..
