Paxson very eager to relinquish day to day duties

[Jamfan]

http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/columns/story?columnist=stein_marc&page=Chatter-090424

We will be intruding on the playoffs with periodic Stein Line sweeps for interesting chatter from the NBA's front-office and coaching grapevines.

The first round, so to speak:


The assumption that Bulls executive vice president of basketball operations John Paxson is leaving the organization at season's end, after persistent speculation that he nearly quit after the trade deadline, is still out there. But it really shouldn't be.

Sources with knowledge of the Bulls' thinking indicate that Paxson, while still very eager to relinquish day-to-day duties in Chicago's front office in spite of the Bulls' recent return to semi-prominence, is expected to stay in the organization as its senior basketball voice without losing much (if any) influence in big-ticket decision making.

In a scenario relayed by a few of his peers, Paxson would move into a still-to-be-defined role as a top adviser to Bulls chairman Jerry Reinsdorf, with director of player personnel Gar Forman taking over as the every-day personnel chief.

 

[dougthonus]

Interesting. We'll see if there are anything to these rumors which Paxson has consistently denied.

 

[TheStig]

What day to day responsibilites does Pax have anyway? I understand he is busy around the draft and around the trade deadline but its not like he needs to personally scout ever prospect or anything with the technology and personnel available to him. I don't understand it, besides being in the paper, I see Pax maybe once a month on tv or the radio and a few times at games.

 

[Bullsman24]

Reaxson very eager to relinquish day to day duti

so he's still going to be making the major decisions and negotiations as GM, but not with the official title or hectic work schedule?

 

[Newskoolbulls]

Reaxson very eager to relinquish day to day duti

Man we may be doomed if Gar is handling much more of the daily duties.