But he's happy to vouch for the two candidates whom the Bulls have interviewed so far in their search for a new head of basketball operations: Nuggets general manager Arturas Karnisovas and Jazz general manager Justin Zanik.
"Those are two candidates that without question should be on the list, and it shows the Bulls are doing their due diligence in that those are guys they're going to talk to," Bartelstein said on the Mully & Haugh Show on Wednesday morning. "I got nothing but good things to say about both of them."
Bartelstein knows Zanik well, as Zanik spent 15 years as an NBA agent, including nearly five years with Bartelstein's Priority Sports group, before becoming a league executive.
Bartelstein is one of the most influential agents in the NBA, and he has a close working relationship with the Bulls. He believes their top basketball executive job is one of the most attractive in the NBA.
"It's one of the elite jobs in professional sports," Bartelstein said. "I've had a lot of people around the league that have called for my opinion and to ask questions. That's the answer I give to a lot of the candidates that are going to be talking with Michael and Jerry (Reinsdorf).
"There's no better sports town in the world than Chicago. We've seen what United Center is like when the Bulls are rolling and the way this town gets behind that team. Chicago is thirsting for the Bulls to get back to that level. They got a lot of really good, young pieces. There's been a bunch of injuries that kind of held some of these guys back. I think if they get healthy, they got a nucleus of some really good young players.
"It's a spectacular opportunity for somebody, without any question. They'll have a boatload of candidates that will be interested. They'll go through, I'm sure, a very thorough search and figure it out. But there's no shortage of people that would want this job."
The Bulls were 22-43 before the NBA suspended play of its season on March 11 due to the coronavirus outbreak.