Bulls executive vice president John Paxson addressed the team's slow start in a wide-ranging one-on-one interview with our K.C. Johnson. Paxson also granted separate one-on-one interviews to other select media outlets.
The last two times John Paxson oversaw this significant a roster overhaul, the Bulls experienced success, if not championships.
Paxson inherited a roster from Jerry Krause in April 2003 that he flipped completely, save for Tyson Chandler and Eddy Curry, and built a perennial playoff team centered around Kirk Hinrich, Luol Deng and Ben Gordon and coached by Scott Skiles.
When that era fizzled, leading to Skiles’ Christmas Eve firing in 2007, the Bulls lucked into the No.