United Center Arena in Chicago.

The game has not yet started, and the scene is already crowded, which is very different from the previous basketball games where the audience took the seats late.

It has been rumored on the Internet earlier that Jordan will return to Chicago for this Bulls vs. Mavericks game.

Sure enough, when the audience arrived at the scene, they spotted Jordan in the front row closest to the court.

Chicago officials may have known the news that Jordan was going to Chicago to watch the game, and between the start of the game, some footage of Jordan's Bulls game was edited.

Projections, breaks, dunks, and the iconic back-to-back replay on the big screen, and of course, Jordan lifting the MVP, FMVP, and championship trophies again and again!

Naturally, the most people who came to watch the game were the die-hard fans of the Chicago Bulls, including many elderly fans with snow-white hair, and some of them even had moist eyes when they saw the classic scenes in the picture.

It was the past of the basketball gods, and it was the mark of their youth, and they still remember the glory of Chicago to this day.

As the giant display screen replayed Jordan's classic images again and again, and the team pictures that won the championship for six years, the fans cheered again and again.

Jordan struggled to sit on the sidelines and look up at the big screen in the air, but whenever the fans cheered, he always had to look up to see what was on it.

This time, when he looked up again, it showed a team picture of the Bulls after their sixth championship, and all the players of that Bulls team were among them, including the coaching staff.

"Look, Scott, you didn't have half as many wrinkles on your face back then." Jordan teased as he looked at the picture on the giant monitor.

A middle-aged man in a suit and leather shoes sitting next to Jordan looked at the red and white Bulls No. 33 jersey on his body in the picture, he was indeed much younger than he is now, and nearly 20 years have passed since that sad championship night.

Then Scott Pippen's eyes are on the center of the first row of the picture, and in that position is sitting Michael Jordan, who is still sitting next to him.

"I already had a lot of wrinkles back then, but your bald head looked much brighter than it does now." James' all-time No. 1 small forward, Scott Pippen, is not good at words, but he is still familiar with helping to talk back.

Jordan smiled when he heard this, and did not continue to pinch Pippen, but said with a slight sigh, "After all, at that time, the spotlight was above our heads. ”

"Even Phil looked very young at the time, and at least he could see some black hair." Pippen said this as he looked at Zen master Phil Jackson, who led the Bulls to six consecutive championships, and apparently lamented the ruthlessness of time.

After Pippen finished speaking, he looked to the other side of Jordan, where sat the other main contributor to the Bulls' third consecutive championship.

"I just noticed that the big bug is also on the scene." Pippen looked at the guy in the picture who was covered in tattoos and even had colorful hair, and whispered to Jordan.

"He's here too?" Jordan was so surprised that he didn't seem to notice where the maverick former teammate Rodman was, but he didn't try to find it.

Dennis Rodman is an important contributor to the second triple championship of the Bulls dynasty, and is even called the third big man by fans in addition to Jordan and Pippen of the Bulls.

The prototype of this slam dunk male protagonist Sakuragi Hanamichi, who is only six feet seven inches tall and two meters and one meters tall as a small forward, plays the power forward position, and averaged 15.3 rebounds per game during his three-year tenure with the Bulls, including nearly 5.6 frontcourt rebounds per game.

Since records began, Rodman has averaged 4.8 frontcourt rebounds per game in his career, second only to the prophet Moses Malone, who played for the Rockets, and second in the entire NBA history.

This madman who doesn't like scoring and prefers to brush rebounds has always been a special case, although he has a decent relationship with Jordan, Pippen and others, but it is obviously not close to the level.

"Even he came to see Chen Zhi's game, this little guy's influence now is really incredible, not even inferior to you back then." Pippen withdrew his gaze from the monitor and leaned back in his seat, saying that perhaps the images from previous years made him a little sentimental and had to find a change of subject.

"He's a lot crazier now than I was before I won the championship, have you ever seen someone who has played less than 20 games and is called another basketball god by the fans?" After Jordan witnessed Chen Zhi's 66 points in the half, he had already admired Chen Zhizhi.

"You watched his last game, did you feel threatened?" Pippen said with a smile, Chen Zhi is known as the new generation of basketball gods, and naturally everyone wants to know which of the two basketball gods is stronger and which is weaker.

"Threat?" Jordan was stunned when he heard this, stared ahead for a moment, seemed to be thinking about this problem very seriously, and then he smiled, "This little guy is not completely mature, he can cut super high statistics, but the dominance of the game is not enough, at least I don't think the current Mavericks can beat the Bulls team with 72 wins in 96!" ”

"That's nature." Pippen smiled when he heard this, but he saw Jordan next to him blinking lightly, and immediately knew that Chen Zhi's weight in Jordan's heart was obviously very heavy, and it seemed that in Jordan's heart, even at his peak, he couldn't defeat Chen Zhi lightly.

If it weren't for that, Jordan's answer would definitely not avoid the duel between the two teams, but would have replied with a smile that would have made Chen to cry.

Pippen is deeply touched by how confident and competitive the man around him is, and he never really cares about the challenge of any player, not even Kobe, who is known as the greatest player since Jordan.

Playing with Jordan for many years, Pippen knows the horror of Jordan's basketball strength, if it weren't for this, Pippen, who was known as the first small forward in history, would not have been willing to take on the role of the second leader in the Bulls, he can do what Jordan can do, and Jordan can do what he can't do.

But it is this such a powerful Jordan, in the comparison with Chen Zhi, the topic was transferred to the confrontation between the two teams, it seems that this Chen Zhi is indeed extraordinary, and has been recognized by Jordan, Pippen can't help but think, in fact, many stars are famous, Chen Zhi is obviously not the case, Pippen can't help but look forward to tonight's game, after all, this is the first time he watched Chen Zhi's game live.

Just as Pippen was thinking about it, there was a noise from the fans, some cheering and boos, and the audience was not too many, but the momentum was not small, enough for everyone in the stadium to hear.

Did the away players play? Pippen couldn't help but glance at the busy staff on the field, and there was no shadow of the players.

Turning his head, he found that Jordan next to him was looking up at the giant monitor in the United Center, his expression was a little complicated, Pippen couldn't help but look intently, and found that there was an old photo of an acquaintance, a guy with a chin thicker than his neck, or rather, the guy seemed to have no neck at all.

No wonder Jordan had a complicated face, no wonder there were boos on the Bulls scene, and Pippen finally knew the reason for the boos, the former general manager of the Bulls, Jerry Kraus.

Jerry Krauss, the general manager of the Bulls' six-championship period, or the fat man who is the founder of the Bulls dynasty, is more appropriate.

It is undeniable that Jordan is a once-in-a-century talent in basketball history and an unshakable cornerstone of the Bulls.

But the construction of an empire on this cornerstone is still a barren land, and it depends on the hands of designers, Jerry Krauss is the designer of the Bulls.

Among the six championships of the Bulls, the actual Bulls Big Three were born, Jordan, Pippen, and Phil Jackson.

In addition to Jordan's draft, which was not made by him, the other two most decorated giants are completely from him.

Pippen is a Bulls celebrity, but it wasn't the Bulls who drafted him in the draft, but the now all-time SuperSonics, and Jerry Krause single-handedly handled the trade to bring Pippen to the Bulls.

He used the No. 8 pick to select Polinis, then bundled Polinis with a 1988 second-round pick and a 1989 first-round pick in exchange for Pippen, the No. 5 rookie in 1987.

The deal looks like a loss-making deal, and the gap between the No. 8 and No. 5 picks is clearly not worth filling with two draft picks, one of which is a first-round pick.

When learning that Klaus had obtained Pippen, Jordan confessed: "Who is this hillbilly? I've never heard of him. ”

Joe's gang leader had already shown his terrible vision at that time, and Klaus was the best small forward in history at that time, and he was also the most powerful and stable helper on Jordan's road to godhood.

Phil Jackson was another real giant of the Bulls team at that time, the former three-time champion Grant, Armstrong, and the latter three-time champion Rodman, etc., were obviously not as important as Phil Jackson, the coach of the team.

And Jerry Klaus can be called Phil Jackson's Bole, and it was Klaus who introduced Jackson to the Bulls twice.

At that time, Phil Jackson was still unknown, and was not recognized in the coaching industry, and went to the Bulls for the first time to interview to help coaching, even if Klaus was introduced, he was still rejected because of the hippie style of the beard and flower shirt, and was later invited by Klaus, and finally successfully joined Collins' coaching staff and successfully entered the NBA coaching world.

When Collins' relationship with the team came to an end, it was Klaus who praised the Zen master as the coach of the Bulls.

In addition to these two giants, Krauss naturally made more role player trades, and he also traded Jordan's royal bodyguard Oakley for the first three-time champion of the main center Bill Cartwright, and the last three main players Rodman and Kukoc are also from him.

And he has repeatedly disagreed with Jordan in these trades, Klaus has planned to send Pippen to the SuperSonics for Camp, and has even tried to trade Pippen to get Maddy. From the perspective of the team's long-term development, Kraus believes that the Bulls need to gradually rebuild, otherwise there will be a huge crisis after Jordan retires.

At that time, Pippen was extremely dissatisfied with the contract offered by the Bulls, and Klaus apparently thought that it was inappropriate to give Pippen a big contract and let him serve as the leader of the team after Jordan's retirement. Later, Pippen's experience playing after leaving the Bulls also proved that Klaus has a burning eye.

Later, Phil Jackson, who he picked up single-handedly, also had a negative attitude towards some of Klaus's operations after he successfully ascended to the throne, and gradually became conflicted with Klaus. However, it has been proven that neither Jordan nor Zen Master is as superb in vision as his job.

If Jordan is a once-in-a-century basketball genius, perhaps Jerry Krauss, a fat man who went from a grassroots scout to a designer of the Bulls dynasty, is a once-in-a-century genius among managers.

However, many Bulls fans obviously blamed Klaus for the Bulls' second three-game collapse after the Bucks, which is why many old fans at the scene booed when they saw Klaus's impact on the screen.

If it weren't for Klaus, maybe Jordan would not have retired so early for the second time, and the form of the gang leader at that time did decline, but the dominance of the court was still not comparable to that of ordinary superstars.

Klaus's attempt to send Pippen away to trade for Maddie was blocked by Jordan, in the conflict between Klaus and Phil Jackson, Jordan stood on Jackson's side, and he, like Phil Jackson, believed that all of Klaus's trading intentions were to destroy the Bulls' championship competitiveness, so in the end, Phil Jackson left, Jordan was no longer willing to play for other coaches, and many factors were superimposed and announced his retirement.

If it weren't for Jordan, a "unique" guy with a "unique" vision, to intervene in the management operation, Maddie might have teamed up with Jordan to continue the glory of the Bulls, at least not directly into a complete rebuild after the 98 season, and has not been able to completely get out of the rebuilding quagmire for more than ten years.

"I've heard he's very sick." Pippen and Klaus, who have tried to trade them many times, obviously have a lot of contradictions, but years later, those contradictions have long been irrelevant in the face of their shared accolades.

After Jordan became the owner of the team, after more than ten years of experience, he is obviously no longer the short-tempered hairy boy he was at the beginning, even if he was once full of contradictions, he now understands the importance of Klaus to the team back then.

The images on the monitor had already switched to the other Bulls' championship-winning executives, with Phil Jackson and Winter Sr. both appearing one after another, and Jordan finally withdrawing his gaze.

"We may owe him an apology." Jordan turned to Pippen and said, "He's the one who brought us together who could form real chemistry together, but unfortunately we didn't think so. ”