New Bulls' acquisition Tim Thomas made it clear that he has no issues in being traded back to Chicago, and according to the Chicago Sun-Times Thomas also made it clear that the problems which led to his release the first time were to do with former coach Scott Skiles and not GM John Paxson.

'[Paxson] really didn't go into it,'' Thomas said. ''I'm pretty sure he felt a certain way about the whole situation. There was a lot of heat on the organization at that particular time. There's really no need to talk about it. That's in the past. The guy who was pretty much controlling things is gone."