Bulls Finally Signal End of GarPax Disaster and Start Search for New Top Executive
By Adam Weinrib
Rejoice, Chicago! Even though live basketball action is on hiatus, the Bulls still might have a savior waiting in the wings.
We were all treated to a Windy City Woj Bomb on Friday afternoon, as ESPN insider Adrian Wojnarowski announced that the Bulls are currently searching for a brand new top decision-maker to get the franchise out of its doldrums.
Yes, that should signal the end of the GarPax Reign of Terror.
That dastardly duo, of course, is Gar Forman, GM since 2009, and John Paxson, the team's VP of Basketball Operations since the same season, following an unsuccessful GM tenure from '03-'09.
Somehow, by assembling a core of bangers around Derrick Rose, Forman managed to swindle a Co-Executive of the Year honor, shared with Pat Riley, in 2011. But as Rose's injuries piled up, so did a catastrophic list of bad decisions for Chicago, eventually taking the Bulls far backwards into a bygone era with the hardscrabble hire of Jim Boylen as head coach.
From matching a monster RFA offer for Zach LaVine, to paying Cristiano Felicio to do very small doses of basketball, and even back to Paxson whiffing on LaMarcus Aldridge in '06, there's been very little good in Chicago's talentless last decade.
No matter who the new leader of the braintrust is, he'll be welcomed back with open arms by a fanbase that never should've been doomed to score-first mediocrity.