A month ago, “The Last Dance” debuted with a storyline centering around then-Chicago Bulls general manager Jerry Krause and how he virtually caused the downfall of the Bulls' dynasty. On Sunday, the series came to its end, and what came as a bit of a surprise was how the show gave Krause somewhat of an unexpected redemption toward the conclusion of the narrative.

No less than Bulls forward Scottie Pippen, who earlier in “The Last Dance” locked horns with Krause, sent the highest of praise to his former employer:

“We can’t knock him, we gotta give him credit. And he deserves credit because he was the general manager of those teams,” Pippen said in the docuseries, via Orlando Silva of Fadeaway World. “I’ve had a lot of great people in my life and that’s why my success happened. I played with Phil Jackson, the greatest coach in the game. Michael Jordan, the greatest player in the game. Jerry Krause, obviously the greatest general manager in the game”

Krause was depicted as the antagonist throughout “The Last Dance,” so it's great that he is given some much-deserved credit at the very end. It is only fitting that this comes from Pippen, who was one of Krause's biggest adversaries, especially at the beginning of the show. There was even a scene in which Pippen berated Krause on the team bus in front of everybody and then demanded a trade.

Things happened the way they did, and there's no denying that Krause helped put Pippen in a rather precarious situation with regards to their problematic contract negotiations. Then again, as Pippen himself stated in “The Last Dance,” Krause was the very best at what he did. After all, there probably would have not been a dynasty had it not been for Krause, and he should get credit for acquiring Pippen in the first place.