Stunned by Michael Jordan’s first …

Stunned by Michael Jordan’s first retirement like everyone else, he wrote that being around that 55-victory team was a privilege. He wrote that the job that coach Phil Jackson and his staff did was “the finest single-season coaching performance” he had seen. In his unfinished and unpublished memoir that Krause’s family has shared with NBC Sports Chicago, Krause showered praise on Toni Kukoc, Steve Kerr and Pete Myers, and wrote that “everyone on the roster contributed.” But he saved his biggest praise for Scottie Pippen. “He stepped up,” Krause wrote. “He had his best all-around season of his 17-year career.”