Paxson Knows Now Is a Good Time to Exit

Ding-dong, the Bulls are dying. It’s now been spat out across every news wire that GM John Paxson will resign after the break. This is a good first step, but now the team needs to ditch quasi-coach Vinnie Del Negro, and make some major move -- possibly utilizing Larry Hughes’s 2010-expiring contract -- to bring coherence to their roster. What that is, I don’t know. Getting Amare Stoudemire to pair with Derrick Rose, the franchise’s sole bright spot, would work, but that’s one of several thousand Amare rumors out there at present.↵
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↵Come to think of it, while Paxson overpaid Deng and Ben Wallace, he didn’t cave to Gordon’s excessive demands, fleeced the Knicks for Eddy Curry, and had the good sense to finally fire Scott Skiles, who was partly responsible for making draft picks like Tyrus Thomas look like busts. Then again, he did hire Skiles in the first place, and is responsible for Del Negro’s reign of fecklessness.↵↵You’d like to think that this is just the beginning, that soon the coach and most of the players, will be gone. Or maybe Paxson left exactly because this franchise is in such a hopeless, or at least uninspiring, way. He tried, and others did, too -- some chosen by him, some not. But now, the net result is a mess, and he’s bowing out gracefully. Or out of frustration. Or abandoning his problem. At the very least, it seems like he recognizes it’s time for him and the team to move on.↵
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↵Oh, and I’d say this means the Bulls aren’t getting Amare. ↵

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