Jerry Krause

Jerome "Jerry" Krause (April 6, 1939 – March 21, 2017) was a professional basketball scout and general manager for, among other franchises, the Baltimore Bullets and the Chicago Bulls of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He was a two-time recipient of the NBA's Executive of the Year award. 2Early career Krause was born in 1939 and grew up in Chicago. He played high school baseball as a catcher at Taft High School in Chicago and attended Bradley University. After college he went to work as a scout with the Baltimore Bullets. Early on Krause gained a reputation of being able to eye talent. He is credited by some for discovering future Hall of Famer Earl Monroe. While with the Bullets, he urged the team to pick North Dakota forward Phil Jackson in the 1967 NBA draft. The Bullets did not draft him, but Krause continued to keep in touch during Jackson's playing career and into his first years as a coach. Their relationship flourished during the 1970s and 1980s; notably, when Jackson was coaching the Albany Patroons in the Continental Basketball Association, Krause once called him requesting an analysis of the league's players, which Jackson provided in great detai