Telander, longtime senior columnist at the Chicago Sun-Times and former Sports Illustrated staffer, is no stranger to the Windy City faithful. Phills’ career was cut tragically short in 2000 when he was killed in a car wreck. He then retired permanently following the Lakers' loss to the Detroit Pistons in the 2004 NBA Finals. (The league’s investigation of the incident resulted in the end of Crawford’s season.) The long and exceptionally skilled 6-foot-11 small forward had the awful misfortune of being liked by Bulls GM Jerry Krause, which, in 1992, meant he was in for a hellish degree of hazing from the He-Man Krause Haters Club (i.e. [1] He helped Chicago win three consecutive NBA championships (1991, 1992, and 1993), securing the third with a last-second block on Kevin Johnson.

Hill showed that he could score from all three levels - making shots from 3, mid-range & being smooth to the rim.

Unfortunately, Jordan found out that Jerry Krause thought highly of Majerle’s defense, which gave the prideful superstar the mental ammunition he needed to decimate the poor Suns. He won the Sixth Man of the Year Award in 1995, made the NBA All-Defensive Second Team in 1997 and earned a surprise All-Star honor with the Miami Heat in 2001. “Most of the time I see the s**t you do.” There wasn’t a more hot-tempered, generally hated NBA referee than Joey Crawford. We’ll never know how much better this promising iteration of the Sonics might’ve been had they stuck with the best player available, Scottie Pippen. And unlike many players in “The Last Dance," Jordan respected Phills, calling him the toughest defender he ever faced.

Bobby Phills was one of the great feel-good stories of the late-‘90s NBA. 2000-01: Chase is a high academic student as well! Grant left the Bulls as a free agent and joined the Orlando Magic, led by Shaquille O'Neal and Penny Hardaway. On May 5, 1995, Grant made the final basket in Boston Garden history in Orlando's series-clinching victory over the Boston Celtics. Russell sowed the seeds of his doom when he trash-talked MJ during the latter’s brief baseball career. The veteran Cartwright was clearly in decline, but he was still a steady presence in the middle and, in Krause’s view, a good mentor for the up-and-coming Grant. @BerkmarHoops Sparrow’s longest tenure was with the Knicks, where he set up a foundation to help underprivileged New York City children. For those of us who were there, the documentary served as a finely tuned nostalgia machine triggering frequent "remember so-and-so" outbursts. such a laid back, unassuming guy and played like one as well.. 7/15/2008 2:29 AM He was traded to the Seattle SuperSonics along with 2000 and 2001 second round picks for Dale Ellis, Don MacLean, Billy Owens, and rookie Corey Maggette just before start of the 1999–2000 season.