{"id":623734,"date":"2026-05-04T22:40:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T22:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/623734\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T22:40:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T22:40:10","slug":"bulls-hire-bryson-graham-as-new-front-office-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/623734\/","title":{"rendered":"Bulls hire Bryson Graham as new front office leader"},"content":{"rendered":"

It was looking like the Bulls predictable \u201caim low\u201d search has produced a less-than-predictable winner, as the Bulls have hired<\/a> Bryson Graham.<\/p>\n

Graham was one of the reported finalists, but all subsequent reporting was leaning towards Matt Lloyd as Lloyd has previously worked with the Bulls and under John Paxson, who was (again, reportedly) influential in this executive search. <\/p>\n

As I said last week, I don\u2019t really care to interrogate Graham\u2019s experience. He\u2019s a first timer in the lead chair, like Lloyd and several other finalists, and like Arturas Karnisovas was in 2020. <\/p>\n

I would\u2019ve preferred an established hire, like the Dallas Mavericks made earlier in the day with former title-winning Raptors executive Masai Ujiri. But it was known extremely early that the Six-Time World Champions nostalgia brand Chicago franchise was not going that route. <\/p>\n

Of note, and credit to Bleacher Nation for connecting the dots here<\/a>, is that Graham was likely someone that Michael Reinsdorf\u2019s mentioned search firm has recommended, as they have done their recent placements with former Pelicans and Hawks executives. <\/p>\n

This could work out, but we have no reason to assume it will!<\/p>\n

\"TheThe Bulls are doing their thing with hiring a new leader, which is not guaranteed doom <\/a><\/p>\n

Graham is only 39 years old, a Texas native who played collegiately at Texas A&M and after college went into the New Orleans Pelicans front office where he stayed for 15 years, working his way up to a GM title, and then was poached by the Atlanta Hawks before last season. In those 15 years in New Orleans, Graham worked under several administrations but likely most relevant was his time under David Griffin. <\/p>\n

[thus you\u2019ll likely read \u2018credit\u2019 given to Graham in player drafting and development when it was Griffin making the ultimate calls. If that\u2019s so impressive, why not just hire Griffin?]<\/p>\n

What I\u2019m most intrigued by is who else Graham is going to bring with him to his front office staff. And if he needs to fire people to hire others, as there are several holdovers from the AKME, GarPax, and\u2026shit, even Jerry Krause eras, and though I don\u2019t know their ambitions to actually work for a living, they still have building keycards and are accounted for in the budget. <\/p>\n

There\u2019s also the major move of hiring a head coach, and deciding which assistants from the departed Billy Donovan\u2019s staff will remain. <\/p>\n

A big \u201cwe\u2019ll see\u201d to all of this! As Bulls fans, we don\u2019t have much experience with these kind of changes at the top. With Arturas Karnisovas I learned a couple lessons: <\/p>\n

Don\u2019t assume \u201chighly regarded\u201d means anything<\/p>\n

Trust my gut if the guy stumbles out of the gate with an uninspired press performance and long-dithering evaluations, like how AK handled his first couple months being \u2018diligent\u2019 with Jim Boylen.<\/p>\n

I will also try not to be cynical with this news. The process may be bad, and the Bulls may be hopelessly cheap, but that doesn\u2019t mean they can\u2019t nail this hire. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It was looking like the Bulls predictable \u201caim low\u201d search has produced a less-than-predictable winner, as the Bulls…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":623735,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,451,3,452,453],"class_list":["post-623734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=623734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623734\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/623735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=623734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=623734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=623734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}