Kerr closed his interview with Lowe by recounting the last time the 1997-98 team all assembled together under one roof — a team dinner with players, coaches and wives shortly after the championship parade. Jackson set up the event, and at one point gathered all the players for a last drink and cigar. While indulging, Kerr said, the team went around and toasted each other in a final, emotional and “surreal” gesture of farewell.
Kerr’s toast? To Kukoc, of course.
“I said a toast to Toni Kukoc because of what he faced coming over. It wasn’t common back then for European players to come over to the league, and nobody had had to go through what he did,” Kerr told Lowe. “The pressure from Michael and Scottie to earn his keep with the Bulls and, you know, to be Jerry's (Krause) guy because Jerry had drafted him in the second round and touted him. So all of a sudden, he shows up to practice and Michael and Scottie are all over him about being Jerry’s guy. And poor Toni just wants to play basketball. So I said a toast to Toni because I just thought he was such a great player.
“That night, I just wanted him to know how much he meant to our team.”
Kerr je sjajan covjek. Svaka cast .
Mislim da nece biti puno o Kukoca na "The last dance". Niti rijeci o njemu u prve dvije episode. Steta, bio je treci igrac u Bullsima -barem po meni - i neke vazne tekme je cak i on odlucio kao tekmu protiv Sonicsa kao gore navedeno. Da ne pricam kakva je probleme stvarao za protivnicku obranu.
[uredio adrian - 25. travnja 2020. u 21:22]