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Krause at his home in Highland Park, Ill., in 2003. He resigned from the Bulls near the end of the 2002-3 N.B.A. season.
Kenneth Dickerman for The New York Times; thumbnail, Michael S. Green/Associated Press, 1995
Jerry Krause
Died on March 21, 2017 at age 77
Jerry Krause was the general manager who orchestrated the Chicago Bulls’ dynasty of the 1990s, assembling the teams that Michael Jordan led to six N.B.A. championships.
Notable Deaths 2017
Remembering Mary Tyler Moore, Chuck Berry, Jerry Lewis, David Rockefeller, Trisha Brown, Glen Campbell, Dick Gregory, Edith Windsor, Sam Shepard, Tom Petty and many others who died this year.