Seven months after winning their sixth championship in franchise history, the Chicago Bulls didn’t have enough players to practice when training camp got underway in January of 1999. Randy Brown, one of the holdovers from the Michael Jordan era, remembers walking into a preseason team meeting, seeing just a few familiar faces. Guard Ron Harper had returned. So too had center Bill Wennington and point-forward Toni Kukoc. But just days after the league’s lockout had concluded and fresh off Jordan’s second retirement from basketball, the Bulls were left to wonder not how they would defend their three consecutive titles, but more so, if they could even take the Berto Center practice floor.
Life After MJ: What It Was Like to Be on the 1999 Chicago Bulls
