{"id":650051,"date":"2026-05-05T00:18:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T00:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/650051\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T00:18:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T00:18:09","slug":"bulls-hire-bryson-graham-as-next-vp-of-basketball-operations-amid-search-for-new-gm-head-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/650051\/","title":{"rendered":"Bulls hire Bryson Graham as next VP of basketball operations amid search for new GM, head coach"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Chicago Bulls<\/a> have found their new top executive.<\/p>\n

The Bulls reached a deal to hire Bryson Graham as their new vice president of basketball operations on Monday afternoon, the team announced.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am incredibly honored to join the Chicago Bulls organization,\u201d Graham said in a statement. \u201cThis is one of the most storied franchises in the history of professional basketball, and I feel a tremendous sense of responsibility to deliver results for this city and these fans. My entire career has been built on the belief that sustained success starts with finding the right players and developing an all-around impactful culture. I want to thank Jerry and Michael Reinsdorf and the entire Bulls organization for presenting me with this opportunity. I am ready to get to work.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Bulls are the second team in the league to hire a new top executive on Monday. The Dallas Mavericks<\/a> hired former Toronto Raptors executive Masai Ujiri as their next team president<\/a> on Monday.<\/p>\n

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Graham spent 15 years with the New Orleans Pelicans<\/a> front office, where he first started as an intern before working his way up to general manager. He then joined the Atlanta Hawks<\/a> last season as the team\u2019s senior vice president.<\/p>\n

Graham will take over in Chicago for Art\u016bras Karni\u0161ovas, who was fired near the end of the regular season<\/a> along with general manager Marc Eversley. Karni\u0161ovas was hired ahead of the 2020-21 campaign, but the team managed just one winning record and a single playoff appearance under his watch.<\/p>\n

Head coach Billy Donovan parted with the team last month after six seasons, too. The Bulls went just 31-51 this season and missed the playoffs. They\u2019ve not won a playoff series since 2015, either, which was the final year of the Tom Thibodeau era.<\/p>\n

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Karni\u0161ovas and Eversley were responsible for several trades or roster moves that didn\u2019t really pan out, including trading DeMar DeRozan<\/a> in 2024 and Coby White<\/a> in February while not getting much in return. They released Jaden Ivey near the end of the season<\/a>, too, after he went on several anti-LGBTQ rants on social media. Ivey was acquired by the Bulls<\/a> in a three-team trade in February.<\/p>\n

With Graham now in place, he and the Bulls will turn their attention to finding a new general manager and head coach. Once he gets that settled, he has plenty of room to work with. The Bulls have both their own lottery pick and an additional first-round pick in the upcoming NBA Draft. They have about $60 million in cap space available, too. Graham hasn\u2019t held this role before, but the Bulls clearly believe he\u2019s the man capable of leading the franchise back to prominence after more than a decade of struggling in the Eastern Conference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Chicago Bulls have found their new top executive. The Bulls reached a deal to hire Bryson Graham…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":650052,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[7218,64,63,726,314352,2066,8643,7235,7900,19709,7210,85,17602,21843],"class_list":["post-650051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-atlanta-hawks","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-bryson-graham","tag-chicago-bulls","tag-coby-white","tag-dallas-mavericks","tag-demar-derozan","tag-jaden-ivey","tag-new-orleans-pelicans","tag-sports","tag-toronto-raptors","tag-vice-president"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=650051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650051\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/650052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=650051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=650051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=650051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}