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  "path": "/billy-donovan-hops-onto-the-nbas-slow-moving-coaching-carousel",
  "publishedAt": "2026-04-22T14:26:37.000Z",
  "site": "https://defector.com",
  "tags": [
    "NBA",
    "basketball",
    "Billy Donovan",
    "Chicago Bulls",
    "coaching",
    "he was done with the Bulls of his own volition"
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  "textContent": "Billy Donovan seemed all set to become the dominant figure in the Chicago Bulls' basketball hierarchy, having not only outlasted the team's head of basketball operations and its general manager but getting an oversold but still noticeable vote of approval from the person who just fired them. Those two ex-executives were Arturas Karnisovas and Marc Eversley, and the instrument of their pink slips was Michael Reinsdorf, son of the owner and the current president and CEO. When Reinsdorf said, \"If I interview someone and they're not sold on Billy, they're not sold on a Hall of Fame coach,\" he was crowning the team's new sub-boss.\n\nAnd so when Reinsdorf said, \"If Billy wants to be our coach and someone's not interested in that, then they're probably not the right candidate for us,\" nobody took the alternate reality in the first part seriously. The Bulls are the Bulls, and that means a decade of torpid mediocrity, with minimal postseason participation (two series, both lost) and an average winning percentage of .426, the equivalent of a 35-47 record. Still, an NBA head coaching job is an NBA head coaching job, and security in an insecure structure is not to be scoffed at.\n\nAnd yet Donovan scoffed it away barely two weeks later, saying Tuesday that he was done with the Bulls of his own volition rather than take his chances with a new boss. The decision feels like the choice of someone who sees only a cul de sac where Reinsdorf wants to see open highway, but you go with what you know. Where Donovan ends up will be the subject of its own rounds of speculation, but one job rises above all the others as a point of conjecture, and what is American sports more than people who don't know things guessing at the futures of those who do?",
  "title": "Billy Donovan Hops Onto The NBA’s Slow-Moving Coaching Carousel"
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