John Paxson showed up to work Wednesday.
He did some radio spots, conducted the business of being Bulls vice president of basketball operations and started focusing on how the franchise wants to approach the June 20 draft after the picking order was established Tuesday.
This is the part of the season, Paxson insisted, “when things get fun.’’
It was the same routine Thursday and Friday.
The idea that the longtime front-office executive would somehow be curled up in the fetal position after slipping to No. 7 in the draft despite finishing with the fourth-worst record just wasn’t the case.