Education
Utah State University.
Utah State University.
Forman was named General Motors in 2009 after being in the organization for 11 years as a scout, director of player personnel, and special assistant to executive vice-president of basketball operations. Gar Forman was named General Manager of the on May 21, 2009. As General Manager, Forman supervises player personnel, coaching, scouting, training, and administration.
During the summer of 2010, Forman led the charge to reload a Bulls squad after two consecutive.500 seasons and early playoff exits.
Forman and the Bulls signed free agents Carlos Boozer (Utah), Kyle Korver (Utah), Ronnie Brewer (Utah), Ömer Aşık (Turkey), and Kurt Thomas (Milwaukee), while trading for C. J. Watson (Golden State). Those free agents were added to the Bulls" young core of players including Derrick Rose, Joakim Noah, Luol Deng, and Taj Gibson.
On June 23, 2010, Forman also named Tom Thibodeau the 18th head coach of the
Forman was an assistant coach under Tim Floyd at Iowa State. Before then, he had a "scandalized" tenure as an assistant coach at New Mexico State in the early 1990s.
Forman was accused of directing staff to guide "potential transfers through sham correspondence courses at the notorious Southeastern College of the Assemblies of God (SCAG)".
However, he was eventually cleared by the National Collegiate Athletic Association.
Gar Forman received a Bachelor of Science in Marketing Education with a minor in Business Administration in 1984 from the Jon M. Huntsman School of Business at Utah State University.