Best of the Bulls: Will Billy Donovan remain with the organization or leave?

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4.2 • 652 Ratings

🗓️ 9 April 2026

⏱️ 45 minutes

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In the Best of the Bulls this week, Mike Mulligan and David Haugh shared their takeaways from president Michael Reinsdorf's press conference in which he addressed the firings of executive vice president of basketball operations Arturas Karnisovas and general manager Marc Eversley; Leila Rahimi and Marshall Harris debated if the Bulls can attract the best executive candidates after expressing their strong desire to keep Donovan on as head coach; and Chicago Sports Network host Cam Smith joined the Mully & Haugh Show to discuss the Bulls' direction as they embark on their search for a new lead executive.

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0:00.0	If I interview someone and they're not sold on Billy, and they're not sold on a Hall of Fame coach, they're not sold on a person who's won championship in college, who's gone deep in the playoffs with Oklahoma City, who I believe with the Chicago Bulls every year, given the team that he was given, I think he achieved really good results.
0:21.8	Not the results that we wanted, but that's not because of Billy.
0:25.0	So if someone's not interested in Billy as our coach and if Billy wants to be our coach
0:28.5	and someone's not interested in that, then they're probably not the right candidate for us.
0:36.3	Mully and Haw, 104-3, the score.
0:41.3	We have been talking this morning about the news conference we saw yesterday,
0:48.0	the Zoom call with Michael Reinsdorf.
0:51.0	He's back in Chicago, and the Bulls are out in Washington, humiliating the wizards.
0:59.9	We might add, boy, they had a big win.
1:02.5	We haven't seen the Bulls play like that in a while.
1:05.5	How about that?
1:06.3	Pelt him under 100.
1:07.8	129 to 98.
1:09.4	They snap a seven-game losing streak.
1:11.3	They needed that.
1:12.2	Rob Dillingham, 26 points.
1:14.9	Patrick Williams, 20 points.
1:16.5	How about that?
1:17.3	Good pass.
1:18.0	Williams to Miller, a little no-look feed.
1:20.9	This is a Patrick Williams we have not seen in years.
1:26.3	Oh, my goodness.
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