The Bulls still aren’t going to put a definite timeline on their rebuild, now two years young and not really any better off than it was a year ago. But John Paxson and Gar Forman believe they took the next logical step toward building a winner by acquiring forward Otto Porter Jr. prior to Thursday’s NBA trade deadline.
Paxson was candid in his statements that the Bulls were realistic about where they stand in the free agency landscape, both this upcoming summer and in 2020. Perhaps last year’s decision to give Jabari Parker $20 million late in free agency after striking out elsewhere was a lesson learned, that being unrealistic can lead to unused money that needs to be spent somewhere.