{"id":692212,"date":"2026-04-01T16:46:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T16:46:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/692212\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T16:46:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T16:46:15","slug":"chicago-bulls-front-office-again-under-uncomfortable-spotlight-after-dismissing-jaden-ivey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/692212\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago Bulls front office again under uncomfortable spotlight after dismissing Jaden Ivey"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Bulls had an opportunity to \u201ctake care of all family business at once\u201d when they released G Jaden Ivey Monday after his social media rant about the LGBTQ movement, but ownership \u201cstopped after dismissing Ivey\u201d instead of also reshaping the front office, according to Joe Cowley of the CHICAGO SUN-TIMES. Ivey, who was let go for conduct detrimental to the team, \u201cshould have been followed by the front office, which did no homework on him before acquiring him from the Pistons.\u201d Then ownership \u201cshould have worked out a deal with coach Billy Donovan in which he could choose\u201d the GM\/exec \u201che wanted in place.\u201d In reality, the Bulls \u201ccontinue to learn\u201d that EVP\/Basketball Operations Arturas Karni\u0161ovas cannot \u201chandle the job.\u201d The acquisition of Ivey itself \u201cis not grounds for Karni\u0161ovas to be let go.\u201d Cowley: \u201cWhat it is, however, is the latest mistake dropped on a dumpster pile that was already in flames.\u201d If Karni\u0161ovas stays, there is a \u201cgrowing chance Donovan will leave at the end of the season.\u201d Then, the Reinsdorfs will \u201cleave Karni\u0161ovas with a coaching search, a draft choice in the lottery and free-agent decisions with money to spend\u201d (CHICAGO SUN-TIMES, 3\/31<\/a>).<\/p>\n

QUICK MOVE: In Chicago, Julia Poe wrote the Bulls \u201cmoved more quickly\u201d than expected with Ivey, who made his first comments in the morning and was waived \u201cbarely five hours later.\u201d But cutting Ivey meant the Bulls \u201chad to give up on their biggest swing of the trade deadline.\u201d This is \u201cnot the first time Karni\u0161ovas took an unnecessary risk on a clearly troubled player,\u201d but the front office \u201cshould be allotted some grace\u201d for Ivey. Perhaps Karni\u0161ovas \u201creceived assurances that Ivey was receiving sufficient support to negate clear red flags in his personality profile.\u201d Poe: \u201cIt\u2019s impossible to extend this grace, however, to an executive too cowardly to face any public acknowledgment of his error. Karni\u0161ovas offered nothing — not a public statement, not a private comment — in the wake of Ivey\u2019s tirades.\u201d Instead, he \u201cplaced that burden once again on the shoulders of Donovan\u201d (CHICAGO TRIBUNE, 3\/31<\/a>).<\/p>\n

ANY THOUGHT? SI\u2019s Chris Mannix wrote Ivey \u201clooks bad here,\u201d but the Bulls front office \u201ctakes a hit, too.\u201d Mannix: \u201cDid Chicago check him out? Or were the Bulls so eager to buy low on an ex-lottery pick that they ignored everything else?\u201d Interestingly, Bulls Dir\/Player Development Austin Dufault was on the Pistons staff during Ivey\u2019s first season. Mannix wondered if Dufault was consulted. Fortunately, the Bulls did not \u201cgive up much for Ivey,\u201d but now they \u201chave nothing to show for it\u201d (SI, 3\/31<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Bulls had an opportunity to \u201ctake care of all family business at once\u201d when they released G…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":692213,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3771],"tags":[7,920,919,329,3824,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-692212","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago-bulls","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-bulls","10":"tag-chicago","11":"tag-chicago-bulls","12":"tag-chicagobulls","13":"tag-nba"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116330469148614654","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=692212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692212\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/692213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=692212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=692212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=692212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}