An important conversation looms between Michael Reinsdorf, Billy Donovan
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What are the implications of Billy Donovan's future with the Bulls?
Rahimi Harrison-Grody. Midday's Tindall 2. On Chicago Sports Radio, 104.3 The Score. Only the Bulls, man.
This is Rahimi Harrison-Grody on 104.3 The Score, and we are asking the question, are the Bulls preventing themselves from embarking on as successful of a search as it could possibly be when Billy Donovan is part of this equation, even though there might be a different GM, well, there will be a different GM, and also perhaps vice president of basketball operations. So we wanted to know what Billy had to say after Michael Reinsdorf had this declaration yesterday.
How does Michael Reinsdorf's declaration affect team dynamics?
No, I don't think so. I mean, you know, the first thing is, you know, Arturis and Mark were the ones that brought me to Jerry and Michael. Right. So I'm really, really grateful for the opportunity that those guys provided me to be able to talk to Jerry and Michael.
What does Billy Donovan's relationship with ownership entail?
Right. You never like seeing something like that happen. Organizationally, like I've mentioned to you guys, there's going to be a time we're all going to have to sit down and talk. With Arturis and Mark and their situation, it's going to be myself and ownership and probably John Paxson. We'll sit down and talk and just figure out what's the path from here moving forward. So nothing's really changed from that end. It's just obviously the situation with Mark and Arturis. And I always feel bad when anybody in this profession loses their job, whether it be a coach or a front office person or someone that you actually work closely with.
For Billy to basically just tell us in all of that that he said, check in with me next week because I still got to have this conversation. That's what I heard there. I've got to have the conversation with ownership. And you heard him mention John Paxson specifically, the guys who will be in charge of this search and working with this search firm. Billy, I don't know that he knows what he's going to do. I don't get the feeling, right?
That was my initial question to begin with. For example, Billy supposedly said he didn't want to be part of a rebuild. But then he had to qualify those statements recently, right? Then there was the... Are you going to go to North Carolina thing? And I've maintained, if you're in the NBA, why would you go back to college with how it is now? Unless you're a guy like Brad Underwood, who at least has the process established and knows what he needs to do day in and day out to create a Final Four team. But your team may be completely different year in and year out because of the transfer portal. at least when you're in the NBA, you don't have to deal with it to the turnover of that level. And you're not dealing with commitments from teenagers without contracts and stuff like that.
So I just, I didn't know if that's something he wanted to go back to. And they wanted a big name, UNC, and they got one in Michael Malone. And there's a reason his name, Billy's, keeps popping up. The better piece of this is how much do we need to consider his extension after he was interviewed for the Knicks job last year?
You sure he was extended? Because I was told that we don't talk about extensions yesterday.
He said, yeah, we don't talk about contracts. But it was reported.
Right.
Where is your source?
That's amazing.
Because Shams said it, that means it's so... If Shams didn't report it, then it obviously didn't happen.
There were some very... Michael had some very one-of-us moments in that press conference.
You know what I realized?
He was very candid at times to the point where I think he needs to talk more, but that's just me.
He was everybody who's ever been on social media reading through the comments and some of his answers to those questions. Like, I finally get to sound off on what you guys are saying about me on Twitter and about my organization and about my team.
Oh, yeah. He didn't have that for us. He had it for Bulls fans, that press conference.
And I want to address, because we're getting a lot of texts right now on the text line about Billy Donovan. And I know a lot of people think Billy Donovan is a good coach.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What are the implications of Billy Donovan's future with the Bulls?
0:01–0:42
2
How does Michael Reinsdorf's declaration affect team dynamics?
0:42–0:57
3
What does Billy Donovan's relationship with ownership entail?
0:57–6:43
4
Why is Billy Donovan's coaching record under scrutiny?
6:43–8:08
5
What are the factors influencing Billy Donovan's coaching decisions?
8:08–12:17
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