The Bulls need a total rebuild, starting with the front office.

The Chicago Bulls have definitely left a lot to be desired in recent years, with each of the last few seasons somehow getting worse than the previous. With no end of this in sight, the only real answer is a total rebuild that must start with the firing of Gar Forman and John Paxson.

The Bulls had the league’s best record two years in a row just five seasons ago, according to ESPN’s NBA stats from 2010 to 2012, and things were looking promising for a team that owns six NBA championships, but knee injuries to the league’s youngest MVP ever, Derrick Rose, quickly derailed all hopes of championship dreams and have since sent the franchise into a tail spin.

The Bulls front office has been nothing short of frustrating after Rose’s injuries, and this has left Bulls fans wondering if the Gar Forman and John Paxson are right for the job.

Let’s start with the way they tried to force Rose to come back from his injuries even when he said he wasn’t ready to return. Now, as Bulls fans, we know Derrick Rose didn’t handle the returns from these injuries in the best way he could have, but who are the Forman and Paxson to say that Rose is ready? The last we checked, they aren’t doctors, and they didn’t feel what Rose was feeling, so they should show support for their MVP and let him return on his own time.

Not only was the relationship with Rose not the best but neither was their relationship with any other star player on this team in recent years. Luol Deng, Joakim Noah and now Jimmy Butler all have had fallouts with the front office, making Chicago a far less attractive landing spot for any other big name players that could help this franchise get back to winning basketball.

Not only have players had fallouts with the front office but so have the head coaches — most notably with former coach of the year, Tom Thibodeau. The Bulls have had nine head coaches since their last championship in 1998, according to the Chicago Tribune slideshow, with the most recent being Thibodeau, whom many considered as one of the best coaches in the league during his time in Chicago. The front office tried controlling the way Thibs ran the team and his rotations, but Thibs wasn’t having it, which resulted in his firing and the hiring of current Bulls coach Fred Hoiberg, who came from Iowa State University after accomplishing basically nothing with the Cyclones, aside from his 115-56 win-loss record and two Big 12 Tournament championships while also never making it past the Sweet 16 in the NCAA tournament.

Clearly, the front office is causing major turmoil within this storied franchise that is no longer producing winning basketball.