Jerry Krause concedes that he may never have the best of relationships with his one-time star player: Michael Jordan.

Krause was the architect of those six championship teams in Chicago as he assembled the team as the general manager of the Bulls.

Krause and Jordan even disagreed on player acquisitions at some points of their tenuous dealings with each other.

"I did consult Michael and Scottie [Pippen] on [Dennis] Rodman," Krause told the Boston Globe. "I asked them if they had a big problem with it. But, no, they couldn't have vetoed it."

Jordan wanted Krause to take Joe Wolf in the 1987 NBA Draft, but he went with Pippen.

"We were not close, and we're not close today," Krause said of Jordan. "And that's fine. I read [Bill] Russell on Red [Auerbach] and it was a great book. We had the same success but not the same relationship."

"I don't know if it was adversarial. We were both stubborn and both had our minds made up about the game. We would needle each other. I'd say, 'That move last night, you've got a ways to go before you catch [Earl] Monroe.' And he would say, 'That [expletive] Monroe.' After he retired the first time, I told him he was better than Monroe.

"He was a total professional in every sense. He really understood what it meant to be a professional. He could have been real difficult about contracts but he wasn't."

Watch: His Airness (Video)