Chicago Bulls promote Gar Forman to GM

When the Bulls finally make official the promotion of Gar Forman to general manager at a Thursday morning news conference, the announcement will cap a long journey of obscurity and anonymity for the team's former director of player personnel.

[Tweener Scuds]

I know that you (KC) played college basketball and Tim Floyd did not. Has Gar Forman lettered in college basketball.

Hinrich is too small for SG and cannot penetrate or feed passes to the post, so no future as an NBA PG (unlike Shannon Brown). Is Kirk's future in college coaching?.

[Chad]

Yeah I think promoting the guy who's career highlight was resigning Loul Deng is a good idea too! Great move!

[Mgray]

So in other words.........the Bulls are still inept on it's mgmt level.
Great.

[Rod from Tennessee]

Seems like a bunch of nothing if you ask me. Obviously, Paxson was getting flustered to the point he was considering resigning, and Reinsdorf, for whatever reason didn't want that to happen. From what i read, with Forman being the chief negotiater with Luol Deng and his agent, and what Deng was able to get, i'm not sure Forman is the guy for the job. 71 million for 6 years for Deng was ridiculous. Throw in the fact that he was willing to give Deng that sort of money, while not being able to swing some sort of deal with Ben Gordon, and now will most likely watch him walk with nothing in return, shows me that both Forman, and, or, Paxson were both very poor businessmen, and judges of talent.

Pointless move made by the Bulls, which doesn't even deserve the space the article was written on.

[junior]

so, the Bulls finally take the reigns from Pax and give them to who? to Pax Jr., of course. so now we basically have two horrible GM's who think exactly alike running a team that would not come near the playoffs in the Western Conference. what a joke.

[Nada Surf]

Mgray wrote:

So in other words.........the Bulls are still inept on it's mgmt level.
Great.

You're not going to go through yet another Bulls' season, are you, Captain Sunshine?
You'll hang yourself over the summer, won't you?

[Jody]

Just posted on www.nba.com at 5:18 P.M. "Gar Forman's top priority is to re-sign Gordon." I guess Chris Bosh, whether it's this year or next year isn't #2 and pursuit of possible free agents if they so opt like Boozer or Harrington isn't #3. Might as well bring back Jerry Krause! UGH!!!