Just a few more months, that’s all Jerry Krause wanted, just a few months to find out if his dream of enshrinement into the Basketball Hall of Fame would become a reality, to get the recognition Hall voters had for so long, bizarrely, denied him. It was the spring of 2017 and the architect of the Bulls dynasty, his body ravaged by a bone disease, waited, hoping to get the call he had earned several times over. He never got it. Krause passed away in March, 2017, just days before the call came informing his wife, Thelma, that Krause had made it, months before he could be feted in front of his peers.
Jerry Krause Deserved Better in 'The Last Dance'
