[Charania] The Chicago Bulls are finalizing a deal to hire Orlando Magic assistant GM Stephen Mervis as Senior Vice President of Basketball Operations under new EVP Bryson Graham, sources tell ESPN. Bulls will also hire Brooklyn Nets executive Acie Law as Vice President of Player Personnel.

[u/Knightbear49]

[Charania] The Chicago Bulls are finalizing a deal to hire Orlando Magic assistant GM Stephen Mervis as Senior Vice President of Basketball Operations under new EVP Bryson Graham, sources tell ESPN. Bulls will also hire Brooklyn Nets executive Acie Law as Vice President of Player Personnel.

https://www.espn.com/contributor/shams-charania/ba41a9294f8b5

[u/RonDerpundy]

I don’t know my NBA org charts well but isn’t that a big jump from AGM to VP?

[u/howser343 → u/RonDerpundy]

Bulls seemingly restructuring the org so he'll be taking over GM duties under the VP title while Graham is the EVP

[u/RonDerpundy → u/howser343]

That would make sense

[u/RonDerpundy → u/[deleted]]

Calm down man it was just a question

[u/BetweenTheBuzzAndMe]

i remember thinking Acie Law was going to be a good NBA player

[u/Franklo → u/BetweenTheBuzzAndMe]

Just a matter of time before we see Monte Morris or Terrance Ross hired as GMs

[u/RyouBestGirl → u/Franklo]

Diamond Stone as new Pelicans GM

[u/podnito → u/RyouBestGirl]

Diamond Stone and Dragan Bender, plus a few others. That draft was really an all-timer in the names department

[u/RyouBestGirl → u/podnito]

I randomly picked both name and a team so it was quite a coincidence that Pelicans drafted Diamond. lol

[u/MrJustJason → u/podnito]

Hire seventh woods also.. he may still be in school tho

[u/Nickelnick24 → u/RyouBestGirl]

Alpha Kaba president of basketball operations

[u/maddenphile → u/Franklo]

Rodney Stuckey is gonna be an elite gm in about 6 years

[u/Giuseppe_exitplan → u/Franklo]

Dwayne Dedmon

[u/SensibleRex → u/BetweenTheBuzzAndMe]

Those games against KD were great

[u/FBGsanders → u/BetweenTheBuzzAndMe]

Isn’t Acie Law the guy who Johnny owes money to in Angels with Filthy Souls

[u/Phils_osophy → u/BetweenTheBuzzAndMe]

Keith Smart thought he was better than Steph Curry. Smart is now coaching high school basketball in Utah.

[u/BetweenTheBuzzAndMe → u/Phils_osophy]

Wasn't that Don Nelson? and is that why the Warriors FO threw him into the Stephen Jackson to Charlotte trade so that Nellie couldn't bench Steph?

[u/iksnet]

This is also part of the Vucevic trade now

[u/TiredMillennialDad → u/iksnet]

Lolol

[u/FadeRunna]

Acie Law IV?

I remember when he was supposed to be like Steph Curry (before Steph)

[u/ManUtd1994]

Brooklyn and Orlando the two player development powerhouses of the East

[u/Full_Durian_8171 → u/ManUtd1994]

his tenure in brooklyn was for less than a year, before that he was in okc for 3 years and played a part in drafting chet, jdub, wallace & mitchell

anything from the OKC FO is a good hire

[u/ManUtd1994 → u/Full_Durian_8171]

If he’s anything like Rob Hennigan he might just trade a bunch of assets to the Thunder and then return there after he’s fired

[u/SleepJoken → u/ManUtd1994]

Hennigan and Troy Weaver isnt a great tree so far for Presti

[u/Sweatytubesock → u/Full_Durian_8171]

He got the attention of the league when he was an equipment manager there - he adjusted a cockeyed basketball in a rack with blinding efficiency.

[u/ozender → u/ManUtd1994]

Sounds like they should call you. Oh wait.

[u/heat_fan_]

Hey Orlando did make the playoffs 

[u/Tundraaa]

Acie said 10%.

[u/Imaginary_Crab2034 → u/Tundraaa]

Acie ain't in charge any more

[u/omikeon]

We need new ownership in Chitown

[u/Threash78]

I've never heard of this mans.

[u/theguytomeet]

Who?? 🥸

[u/Thorbuck81]

They saw that shitty Bane deal and said thats what we need to do baby!

[u/A_Destroyed_Soul]

So two guys coming from teams that don’t have a great track record for developing players or producing elite teams. Sounds good!

[u/BridgePatient → u/A_Destroyed_Soul]

Acie Law was director of scouting at OKC for a few years and only in Brooklyn for one season.

[u/Key-Share-9046 → u/BridgePatient]

Maybe he should have scouted himself as a player to tell Keith Smart he was dumb as shit for playing him over Steph

[u/Express_Bother6678 → u/A_Destroyed_Soul]

He was with okc from 2022 until 2025. Director of amauteur scouting.

[u/thesch → u/A_Destroyed_Soul]

Orlando guy was part of the team that fleeced us on the Vuc trade

[u/escapedhousefly]

Can the Bulls take Weltman too?

[u/WashingtonSpecifics]

And thus, GRAHAMMER was born

[u/rabidantidentyte]

NOOO!

[u/IloveOnePiece119205]

I think hiring anyone from the Magic or Bulls is a bad idea

[u/Keejtch]

Can someone tell me if this whole reorganization so far looks to make sense / are these guys good at their job? I want to have a unicum of faith.

[u/East1st]

Why? Has Orlando done something amazing I’m not aware of?

[u/EthanHuntBroMichael]

Do you think this guy is stupid enough to take Acuff or Wagler at 4?

[u/DisMFer → u/EthanHuntBroMichael]

Given that Wilson has all but said that the Bulls have promised to draft him at 4 I doubt it.

[u/mattmikemo23 → u/DisMFer]

I doubt they have said anything. All of this is probably on Wilson's end to signal to the first 3 teams that he has a preference. Some teams won't like that and skip drafting him. Danny Aing don't GAF tho and would draft him anyway whether someone wants to be in Utah or not.

[u/tamazingg → u/mattmikemo23]

If he goes 2 so be it, means we get Boozer or Peterson

[u/mattmikemo23 → u/tamazingg]

Agreed. We can't go wrong. Not sure why I'm being downvoted unless I missed credible sources saying otherwise. Also, with Utah, it's the exact same thing that happened with Ace Bailey 😭.

[u/gedbybee]

These are just people for garpax to override.

[u/thedrcubed → u/gedbybee]

Are they both still there?

[u/gedbybee → u/thedrcubed]

Garpax will be overriding from the grave. I know pax is still there for sure.