Best of the Bulls: Tiago Splitter tabbed as new head coach

Spiegel & Holmes Show

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🗓️ 16 June 2026

⏱️ 41 minutes

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In the Best of the Bulls, Marshall Harris and Mark Grote shared their initial reactions to Chicago tabbing Portland interim head coach Tiago Splitter to be its new head coach; SiriusXM NBA Radio host Brian Geltzeiler joined the Rahimi, Harris & Grote Show to explain why Splitter is a "home run hire" for the Bulls; and Matt Spiegel and Laurence Holmes detailed how Splitter admirably led the Blazers through turbulent circumstances this past season when he was thrust into the interim head coach role.

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0:00.0	I think we, me and Michael, and it's going to be done collaboratively, we want the right guy.
0:08.5	And if I said, you're picking him.
0:10.8	Oh, yeah, I'm picking him.
0:12.3	I picked you.
0:13.2	You get to pick you.
0:13.9	Absolutely.
0:15.9	Absolutely.
0:20.3	That is the Bulls Executive VP of Basketball Operations
0:24.1	Bryson Graham describing the type of coach he would like
0:27.5	and the answer is in or at least about to be the tweet from Shams
0:34.1	Sharania the Chicago Bulls are finalizing the hire of Portland Trailblazers
0:40.3	interim coach Tiago Splitter as the franchise's new head coach.
0:45.1	Sources tell ESPN. Splitter succeeds Billy Donovan as the Bulls coach after stepping
0:50.6	into the head job and excelling in Portland last season.
0:55.0	So yeah, Bulls fans, Tiago Splitter is the new guy,
0:58.1	as we welcome you back to Rahimi Harris and Grotie on the score.
1:02.1	And he had a very successful season as the interim head coach of the Portland Trailblazers.
1:07.3	Found out he was going to have that job the night before he had the job
1:11.8	replacing Chauncey Billups who was doing bad things allegedly allegedly allegedly
1:17.3	doing bad things so he had to go and Splitter led Portland remember got the job the night
1:25.4	before the season started and led them to a 42 and 40 record with lots of injuries, got them back into the playoffs.
1:34.6	Splitter, also an assistant in his life with Brooklyn, Houston, also Paris and Brazil.
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