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5-13-2009: A Rough Day for Ex-Bulls

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For two former members of the Chicago Bulls organization, May 13, 2009 is a day that they will likely want to forget.

Former Bulls forward Corie Blount, a first-round pick of the team in the 1993 NBA Draft, was sentenced to a year in prison earlier in the day as a part of a plea deal for related drug charges.

USC Head Coach Tim Floyd, who succeeded Phil Jackson in 1999 as the Bulls Head Coach, could face major NCAA sanctions in the wake of a report detailing disturbing recruiting violations if proven to be true, according to a Yahoo!Sports.com story.

More specifically, Floyd has been accused of paying $1,000 to an associate of then high school phenom O.J. Mayo with the hopes of getting the star to play for the Trojans.

Of course, Mayo did end up going to USC for one season, leading the team to a first round appearance in the 2008 NCAA Tournament.

According to Louis Johnson, a described “former member of Mayo’s inner circle,” Floyd directly paid $1,000 to Rodney Guillory, a man who has been accused of lavishing Mayo with $30,000 in gifts prior to and during O.J.’s time at USC.

USC is already involved in a three-year investigation into alleged misdoings within the football and men’s basketball program.

Maybe Floyd’s regretting that decision to pass on the Arizona men’s basketball job last month.

Anyways, here’s the story on the alleged Tim Floyd-O.J. Mayo USC recruiting violations.

Now who would have ever pegged Floyd as someone capable of being underhanded?

Remember when he and his fishing buddy — then Bulls General Manager Jerry Krause — basically had a deal to replace Phil Jackson as Head Coach long before Jackson was even done in Chicago.

In fact, breaking up the Bulls’ championship dynasty seemed to be at the top of Krause’s wish list back then.

And let’s not forget that the Bulls originally hired Floyd as Director of Basketball Operations, a sad and transparent attempt to make it look as if Krause wanted Jackson back when he made it clear after signing Jackson to a one-year deal following the 1997 NBA Finals that it would be Jackson’s last season on the sidelines for the organization.

Floyd, of course, was a major bust in Chicago, largely in part to the fact that his best friend forever Krause surrounded him with absolutely no talent and basically left him to crash and burn.

Looks like Floyd may be doing the same thing to the USC men’s basketball program.

As for former journeyman Blount, he agreed last month in an Ohio court to plead guilty to two felony marijuana possession charges in exchange for prosecutors dropping two trafficking charges.

Today the 40-year-old Blount was sentenced to one year in prison.

Things could have been worse for Blount, who faced a maximum of 10 years in prison after police intercepted 11 pounds of marijuana that was being sent to his house on December 4th and then found another 18 pounds of weed in his home.

With the jokes about his last name aside, Blount said that the marijuana was intended for personal use and to be shared with his friends, prompting the judge in his case to offer this classic line: “Cheech and Chong would have had a hard time smoking that much” weed.

Here are more details about the Corie Blount marijuana arrest and his prison sentence.

An 11-year journeyman who played for six teams in his career, Blount was selected out of Cincinnati by Krause and the Bulls with the 25th pick in the first round.

Amazingly, Blount’s college teammate and eventual All-Star Nick Van Exel would be passed up by the Bulls and fall to the 37th selection in the second round, where shrewd Los Angeles Lakers General Manager Jerry West nabbed the tough, southpaw point guard.

Blount would play two forgettable seasons with the Bulls before being traded to the Lakers prior to the Chicago’s fabulous 1995-1996 season.

While he seemed like a quiet kid on and off the court in Chicago, Blount was the first of three power forwards selected by the Bulls in three straight first rounds.

In the first round of the 1994 NBA Draft, the Bulls selected power forward Dickey Simpkins out of Providence.

In the first round of the 1995 NBA Draft, the Bulls selected power forward Jason Caffey out of Alabama.

Neither Blount, Simpkins or Caffey would prove to be the Bulls answer at a power forward position void by the departures of Horance Grant to Orlando and Scott Williams to Philadelphia after the 1994 season.

Eventually, the Bulls would trade for today’s birthday boy Dennis Rodman prior to the ‘95-96 season.

Rodman would be a perfect fit at the vacant power forward position, and the Bulls would win a title in each of his three seasons in Chicago.

As for Blount, he would return to the Bulls in 2002-2003 in what would be Krause’s final season as Chicago’s General Manager.

In another one of his baffling moves after contributing to the breakup of the Bulls dynasty, Krause thought it would be a good thing to bring back former role players from the championship years.

B.J. Armstrong, Will Perdue and Blount would be former Bulls who would have Chicago encores during the those dark years after the dynasty.

After resigning from the Bulls in the 2002-2003 season, Krause would comment the following summer that there was no way that former Chicago star Scottie Pippen would return to the team as a free agent.

Well, Bulls General Manager John Paxson would in fact sign Pippen to a 2-year, $10-million deal.

While Pippen would play only one year with the Bulls during his second-go around, it was a classy and good public relations move by Paxson and also one that showed just how little of a clue Krause had at the end of what had been a controversial but successful run as General Manager.