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When Randy Brown returned to Chicago a decade after playing his part in the Michael Jordan heyday, he made a decision about whether he'd share the old war stories with the franchise's newest star, Derrick Rose.
"I didn't want to talk about it unless he asked," said Brown, a reserve guard for the Bulls' three-peat teams from 1995-98 who is now the special assistant to general manager, Gar Forman.
But the questions came even quicker than one of Rose's darting dashes through the lane, as he showed a curiosity about Jordan and his winning ways that would soon force Brown to become the in-house almanac of all things MJ.
"He'd say, 'How did Michael handle double teams?' and I'd tell him, 'I don't know, because he was triple-teamed," Brown said. "We'll talk...
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