The Chicago Bulls made the big, mad coach go away during the 2015 offseason, as they had to. The relationship between the Bulls front office and former coach Tom Thibodeau, due to massive missteps on the part of both sides, was beyond repair. Thibodeau had to go, and while it would have been just as effective to lose the presidential pairing of personnel chiefs John Paxson and Gar Forman along the way, teams can survive with a good-enough roster, sound coaching, and a front office with a series of screwups in its past.
It turns out that the roster wasn’t good enough, the coaching was far from sound, and the front office had dug itself too deep a hole after years of matching solid basketball work with impersonal cataloguing of assets alongside its disastrous unending commitment to its own family tree.