Scottie Pippen Hopes to Be Traded to Suns (1995)

[QUOTE=Poetry]To be fair, there were points when management considered Grant and then Kukoc to be more of a priority than Pip. They had a knack for making him feel like he was expendable.[/QUOTE]
I remember reading in the Jordan Rules how Jerry Krause was so obsessed with getting Kukoc over that he was willing to risk Pippen leaving by paying Kukoc more than him, despite never having played an NBA game and not having any cash to keep John Paxson around either.

[QUOTE=guy]Krause was an average GM not good. He made one great move in like 20 years when he got Pippen. Any competent GM should be able to put the right role players around two superstars, one of which is one of the GOAT. And he was fortunate to get Rodman for a backup center because the Bulls had the only leadership strong enough to take him on, which has little to do with Krause. If Rodman wasn't insane, there's no way they get Rodman without including at least Pippen.[/QUOTE]
Yea, I wouldn't exactly say Krause was a masterful negotiator in getting Rodman off the Spurs for a backup centre, it was just Rodman was a headcase who had absolutely no respect for David Robinson and Robinson didn't have a strong enough personality to keep Rodman in line. Both Jordan and Jackson could and the Spurs unloaded him for whatever they could get, anything was better than having him around.