It’s officially official. Arturas Karnisovas is the Bulls’ new executive vice president of basketball operations, replacing John Paxson, who had held that station for 17 years.
In a later statement, the Bulls also announced that general manager Gar Forman will be relieved of his duties. As previously reported by our K.C. Johnson, Paxson will be stepping into a senior advisory role without any day-to-day involvement with the team. In announcing Karnisovas’ hiring, the Bulls made sure to say: “In this role, Karnisovas will be responsible for all decisions made in Chicago’s basketball operations department.”
All of which is to say, the winds of change are howling.