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Bad trades, scouting decimated the Bulls

By Chad Ford
ESPN Insider

Thursday, December 2, 2004

Chad Ford's Thursday chat wrap in SportsNation. Michael Jordan and Phil Jackson's decisions to call it quits might have been the motivating factor to break up the Bulls. But it was former Bulls GM Jerry Krause, who smugly predicted that he could rebuild the franchise without either guy in no time, who put them in the quagmire they're now in. What's so troubling was that things started off so well for Krause. The first year after Jordan and Jackson left, he was able to clear major cap room, c ...

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