Arturas Karnisovas firing was way overdue: Getting rid of worst GM in the NBA gives Bulls new hope
The Bulls future is looking as bright as it's ever been.
Arturas Karnisovas firing was way overdue: Getting rid of worst GM in the NBA gives Bulls new hope originally appeared on The Sporting News . Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here . When Jerry Reinsdorf bought the Bulls in 1985, he installed future Hall-of-Famer Jerry Krause as the team's general manager.
Forty-one years later, he will have to make his fourth hire. The Reinsdorfs are for the most part hands-off owners. In order to get fired, it's not enough to be bad, or even the worst among your peers.
As long as the Bulls aren't national laughingstocks, the job is safe. Arturas Karnisovas fell below that bar, finally getting a well-overdue axe on Monday afternoon. His tenure will mostly be remembered for being inconceivably worse than his predecessors, who had fans paying for billboards calling for their dismissal by the time they were let go.
When Karnisovas was first hired, he had the allure of being part of the scouting group that found Nikola Jokic. Also, most importantly for Bulls fans, he was not Gar Forman or John Paxson. It turns out that having Jokic No.
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