Billy Donovan, Bulls continue to be in a conundrum regarding tanking
Spiegel & Holmes Show
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🗓️ 10 April 2026
⏱️ 14 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | is in Wisconsin and now Scott is on speed going home. |
| 0:03.1 | Hey Scott. |
| 0:03.7 | Hey, how are you guys doing? Great show. Hey, you're right. I got a couple questions. Great show. You're right. You've covered some of it. Afternoons on the score. And this ball game is coming to an end. So the Bulls take care of business with two Ws here in our nation's capital after winning Tuesday. |
| 0:30.8 | And the final score here from Washington, D.C. Bulls 119, Wizards 108, Bulls win, Bulls win, Bulls win. |
| 0:34.9 | So if someone's not interested in Billy as our coach and Billy wants to be our coach, |
| 0:43.6 | and someone's not interested in that, then they're probably not the right candidate for us that was Michael Rinesdorf after you heard Chuck on the call of Bulls basketball but that was Michael Rinesdor talking about his |
| 0:48.1 | affection for Billy Donovan and why he thinks Billy is should still be coach, no matter who is going to be in charge of the Bulls. |
| 0:58.9 | And that set off alarm bells for a lot of people. |
| 1:02.2 | Myself included in that, like, it just seems like that that is going to keep you from being able to hire the people that you want to hire |
| 1:11.1 | and maybe even talk to it and i've talked to people at the bulls that have said look that is |
| 1:17.6 | not the case a lot of people want this job and i don't i don't doubt that there are a lot of people |
| 1:22.8 | who want the job i just think that and there's been some reporting by some of the national guys where |
| 1:27.9 | some of the people that might be candidates have been like, I'm not going to even talk to them |
| 1:32.5 | because I don't trust ownership. Yeah, no, but here's the thing, Billy doesn't necessarily |
| 1:38.4 | buy it. And even if he does buy it, he still has a chance to save them from themselves. |
| 1:46.4 | And his quotes to Joe Cowley in The Sun Times do read like a guy that understands that. |
| 1:53.7 | There's other stuff to touch on with the tanking thing, but you brought us right to it. |
| 1:58.4 | Lawrence, let's share this quote where Billy says that Beth, that's Beth, |
| 2:04.0 | that's Beth, the executive director of baseball communications, shared with me what Michael said. |
| 2:08.8 | And I think Michael was just trying to make the point of how he felt about me. And as I said, |
| 2:14.5 | I was grateful. His responsibility is going to do whatever is best for the organization. |
| 2:20.9 | That's why I think we're going to have to sit down and talk because certainly going into the season, |
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