{"id":796332,"date":"2026-05-14T17:50:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T17:50:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/796332\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T17:50:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T17:50:19","slug":"chicago-bulls-hire-2-vps-to-bryson-grahams-front-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/796332\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago Bulls hire 2 VPs to Bryson Graham’s front office"},"content":{"rendered":"

More changes are coming in the Chicago Bulls front office under new executive vice president of basketball operations Bryson Graham<\/a>, who is finalizing two vice president hirings this week.<\/p>\n

A source confirmed to the Tribune that the Bulls will hire Stephen Mervis as senior vice president of basketball operations \u2014 a position that will operate underneath Graham similarly to the general manager job in previous iterations of the front office \u2014 and Acie Law IV to a new role as vice president of player personnel.<\/p>\n

ESPN first reported Mervis\u2019 hiring, while Law\u2019s hiring was first reported by Michael Scotto of Hoops Hype.<\/p>\n

Mervis most recently served as an assistant general manager for the Orlando Magic, with whom he built a reputation over the last 12 years as a savvy salary-cap strategist with a strong understanding of trade valuation and roster building.<\/p>\n

In many ways, Mervis is similar to Graham<\/a> \u2014 an experienced executive who is just under 40 and was waiting for his breakout role. He will serve as second-in-command as the Bulls aim to transform their front office into a more nimble and adaptive presence in the Eastern Conference.<\/p>\n

Law, 41, was director of player personnel for the Brooklyn Nets this past season after winning a championship ring in 2024-25 with the Oklahoma City Thunder, for whom he served as scouting director for five years.<\/p>\n

He made the transition to scouting after a four-year NBA playing career with five teams, included 12 games for the Bulls in 2009-10. Law was a college teammate of Graham\u2019s at Texas A&M, overlapping for two years.<\/p>\n

Both hires reflect Graham\u2019s desire to improve the Bulls\u2019 ability to identify, acquire and develop talent \u2014 critical for a team with two first-round<\/a> and two second-round picks in this year\u2019s draft. The front-office rebuild<\/a> will continue in the upcoming weeks along with hiring a new head coach and restructuring the coaching staff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"More changes are coming in the Chicago Bulls front office under new executive vice president of basketball operations…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":796333,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5124],"tags":[324901,321728,246596,960,3127,5386,1818,324900],"class_list":{"0":"post-796332","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago","8":"tag-acie-law","9":"tag-bryson-graham","10":"tag-bulls-front-office","11":"tag-chicago","12":"tag-chicago-bulls","13":"tag-il","14":"tag-illinois","15":"tag-stephen-mervis"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116574199931221072","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=796332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796332\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/796333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=796332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=796332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=796332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}