Those trades, along with the 2002 NBA Draft, where the team picked Jay Williams with the second pick, and a free agency where the team signed Donyell Marshall to a three-year, $15 million dollar contract, would be among the last under the Krause regime. His first season with the Bulls resulted in a 41-41 record, with the Bulls scraping into the seventh seed to take on defending champion Boston Celtics. With the first pick of the 1999 NBA Draft, the Bulls selected Elton Brand who would instantly become the most recognizable face on the team. Outside the U.S., the 10-part docuseries will be available on Netflix. Paxson would remain the general manager until 2009 when he was promoted to vice president of basketball operations. "It's a lot of pressure playing for the Bulls with the heritage and the championships," Brand said after he was drafted. Episodes of “Detail: 1998 Chicago Bulls” will post prior to the linear ESPN and ESPN2 broadcasts of “Last Dance” Sunday evenings from April 19-May 17. Under the leadership of new head coach Tim Floyd, the team would finish the season with a record of 13-37.
The first season post-championship was a real failure. For most of the 1990’s, the Chicago Bulls were the team to beat.
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[1] The Bulls entered the season as the three-time defending NBA champions, having defeated the Utah Jazz in the 1998 NBA Finals in six games, winning their sixth NBA championship, and completing a second three-peat in the 1990s. Scott Skiles tenure with the Chicago Bulls was one of the most successful by a coach since the departure of Jackson. In the summer of 2001, the Bulls witnessed the abrupt end of an era before it even had a chance to begin. The first season post-championship was a real failure.
To top it off, this team was coached by all-time great Phil Jackson. https://www.basketball-reference.com/teams/CHI/1999.html, http://www.sportsecyclopedia.com/nba/chicago/bulls.html, "Bulls Reach a New Low by Scoring 49 Points in Loss", "How the Chicago Bulls self-destructed after Michael Jordan and Phil Jackson left", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=1998–99_Chicago_Bulls_season&oldid=957297011, Pages using Template:College with unsupported name, Articles to be expanded from January 2016, Articles with empty sections from January 2016, Articles to be expanded from December 2012, Articles with empty sections from December 2012, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 18 May 2020, at 03:40.
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