Krause’s selection for the Hall of Fame was announced Saturday at the Final Four in Phoenix. He will be enshrined posthumously in Springfield, Mass., the birthplace of basketball, September 8.
It wasn’t quite up there with Potsdam, Yalta, the Missouri Compromise or Jefferson’s dinner with Hamilton that established the national economic structure and the District of Columbia. But that day in Jerry Reinsdorf’s office was perhaps the most consequential meeting in Chicago sports history.
Because that was the day longtime mostly baseball scout Jerry Krause persuaded the new managing partner of the Chicago Bulls that he was The Man with the Plan for the Chicago Bulls.