Rahimi, Harris & Grote Show
Billy Donovan doesn't sound committed to another season as Bulls coach (Hour 2)
13 Apr 2026
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Chapter 1: What are Billy Donovan's comments about his future with the Bulls?
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Save big money at Menards. And this ball game is over. Ball game over. Season over. The final from Dallas. Mavericks 149 and the Bulls 128.
Mercifully, the Bulls season has ended. You may go in peace. Thanks be to God. That was Chuck Swirsky. This is Rahimi Harrison-Grody on 104.3 The Score. And there was a reason to watch the Bulls and Mavericks game last night. It was a fun tribute, by the way, to the former Mavericks of years past. Stacey King's name was on the court over at the American Airlines Center.
Chapter 2: How did the Bulls perform against the Mavericks in their final game?
And they were wearing their throwbacks, which I think they should have never stopped wearing. That's another story for another day. But in the meantime, there was also a record watch that was being had. We were trying to see if Nemerd was going to get the assist record. He was too short of tying it. He ended up with 23 assists. The Mavericks scored 149 points and the Bulls had 128.
But there were a couple of reasons, Marshall, to actually watch this game if you're into it like we are.
Patrick Williams' watch? Is that one of the reasons?
What was your watch for Patrick Williams? Minutes? Points? What?
A dollar?
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Chapter 3: What insights does A.J. Pierzynski provide about Noah Schultz's call-up?
He played 36 minutes. He's 5 of 15 from the field. Well, Lachlan Ulbrich is a thing.
Triple-double, baby! Let me just tell you. 10 points, 15 rebounds, 10 assists. Chicka-chicka.
Layla, this all feels so very... I'm trying to think of the... Anti-climactic?
Perfunctory?
Keep going. You just keep... I mean, there are several adjectives you could use to describe this NBA season. Not just through a Bulls lens, but through an NBA casual fan lens. You know why? For the first time in league history, eight teams... The Bulls are not one of them, by the way. But eight teams have finished with 55 or more losses.
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Chapter 4: What challenges do the White Sox face early in the season?
The Mavericks are one of those teams.
Yeah! Take...
And that tells you the state of the NBA to me. The fact that eight different teams had more than 55 losses. That's hard to do. Because eventually those 55 lost teams, they all got to play each other. It's just not good. And the Bulls, as you said, 31-51. And Mack McClung's out here getting run. And Yuki Kawamura's out here getting run. I... Listen.
Isn't that what you're supposed to do, though? Shouldn't those guys?
Chapter 5: How does Billy Donovan reflect on the Bulls' season?
They should have been doing that for the last however many weeks.
Adam and Stacey have been calling for Mac McClung for a long time in these games, and they had every reason to do so. And Mac McClung didn't do the dunk contest because he wanted to be an NBA player, and they still didn't have him on the court as much.
Well, he's an NBA player, although be it on the whole deal that he's on with the two-way and everything.
Is it free somebody if they're not in the league? With Bobby Portis, it's free Bobby P. I was literally thinking that.
I was literally thinking maybe we should have printed the free Mac McClung t-shirts.
But it's not free. Essentially, you would have to commit. You would have to commit to Mac McClung.
Oh, no doubt. But I mean, you're freeing Mac McClung.
It doesn't have the same ring. Mac McClung. I see what you did there.
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Chapter 6: What changes are expected in the Bulls' management structure?
Commit McClung? Is that what y'all were saying?
Well, he just started going to the Max Crosby.
Listen, Colin Sexton, we have enjoyed your time here on the Bulls. We thank you for your service. It's time to move on. These are the, like, watching the game. Leonard Miller. Do you believe that Leonard Miller is a rotation player on a good NBA team, a playoff-bound NBA team?
This is a basketball segment, and every time somebody says the name Leonard, and I know I'm in Chicago, I think you're talking about Leonard Floyd still. Bears.
Oh.
So.
Okay, there's a thing.
So that's where my brain is still, with the name Leonard and sports in the city.
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Chapter 7: What is the significance of Ozzie Guillen's number retirement?
But yeah, I watched the, uh, the, the, the, the, uh, What's the word I'm looking for? Oh, condensed game of the Bulls and the Mavericks. I did not watch it in real time.
My stupid random self got home at 630 yesterday from the flight. And I was like, I'm going to watch this Mavs and Bulls game. What? Why? Why? Why?
Yeah, I didn't do that. I was watching what was going on with the White Sox because I wanted to figure out what happened because I couldn't watch that game because I was watching the Cubs game.
I was watching the Masters on the plane because we had no Wi-Fi, but we had the Masters.
That was pretty sweet. That's fair as well.
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Chapter 8: What are the main highlights from the Halftime segment?
Some exciting finishes there.
The only thing that happened of importance to me was after the game.
That's it. We've been trying to figure this out for a while now. Billy Donovan maintained consistently and was for his word when he said, talk to me about this stuff after the season. He wanted to focus on coaching his team. The future for him, whether it be with the Bulls or somewhere else, was going to come after the season.
He really didn't have time to think about who was going to be the VP of basketball operations, the general manager, and the like. And Sam Smith... Did the damn thing yet again. Excellent postgame questions. He made the trip. And here's what he asked about. Whether or not... The new GM should bring in his own head coach.
You know, is it appropriate that if you're going to bring in a new, you know, top level manager, you know, should he should he already have the coach? What do you think about that? Should somebody who gets hired in that job, should he have that coach or do you have any opinion about that?
Yeah, I think that's part of the – certainly would be the discussion, you know, with ownership. And I said this before. One, I really appreciate, you know, Michael and Jerry's support. I really appreciate the relationship with the both of them. I think – and I said this before – I think maybe some of Michael's comments – I understood what he was saying in terms of support of me.
But I'm very, very confident that Jerry and Michael are going to do what's best for the Chicago Bulls, and they should. And we all need to because we work for the organization. So that's probably some of the things we probably need to discuss, quite honestly, when we get at some point this time this upcoming week to be able to do that.
I totally understand it from a lot of different levels, and those are the conversations that I need to have with Jerry and Michael about.
Does that sound like a guy who is committed to anything yet? Because that was not my take.
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