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A few days after the Bulls won their sixth championship, Phil Jackson organized a dinner for players, coaches, and their wives at a Chicago restaurant. Midway through, he gathered the players into a private area. They sat Basketball Decal Sticker in a circle, drinks and cigars in hand. Each made one toast.  "It was so unique," Steve Kerr told ESPN. "That was the last moment we were ever all together." Kerr knew his subject right away. "We said a toast to Toni [Kukoc]," Kerr said. "Nobody had to go through what he did -- the pressure from Michael [Jordan] and Scottie [Pippen] to earn his keep. Michael and Scottie are all over him about becoming Jerry [Krause]'s guy. And Toni just [wanted] to play. And so I just said a toast to Toni, because I thought he was such a great player. I wanted him to know how much he designed to our team." MORE: Replay "The Last Dance" Episodes 1 to 4 Kukoc doesn't remember Kerr's toast, though others do. To a surprising degree, he has little interest in rehashing Chicago's glory years. "I Basketball Embroidery lived it," Kukoc stated. Living amid the drama of the "Last Dance" season -- inside the storm Basketball Iron Ons -- almost worked well to insulate Kukoc from it. The Bulls were aging, hurt, aware the gap between them and their fiercest challengers was perhaps the slimmest it had ever been. Kukoc battled plantar fasciitis. He felt the tension between Krause and the players, of the looming breakup. He didn't have the bandwidth to devote emotional energy to it. "Phil was good at keeping us in a bubble," Kukoc said. "We focused on what was in front of us. By watching ['The Last Dance'], I am going to find out factors I experienced no idea happened." Even as a dominant teenager on probably the greatest non-American national team ever, Kukoc adored the group dynamic of sports. He experienced the powerful brew of friendship and chemistry with Dino Radja, Drazen Petrovic, Vlade Divac, and other celebrities in the former Yugoslavia. He sought that vibe in the NBA. Reliving the divide between Krause and the players hurts him now.