Good morning, everybody.

I'm happy to announce the hiring of Billy Donovan as a head coach of Chicago Bulls.

I could not stop smiling from the moment we agreed on a deal.

I am honored and excited to be part of the polls organization.

Peruso.

Ballam!

What the asshole! What's the saying! What's the asshole?

What's the airfo?

Jared Hallin!

Woo!

Oh!

Shot slamma-jamba, baby!

Building a culture and an environment that is predicated on what are the things that go into winning.

I think that that's important.

First of all, Billy is one of the best communicators I've ever been around. Can we have hard conversations? Levine from Peruso to the windmill right hand and slam dunk. He challenges you and he puts a big deal of, I don't want to say pressure, but he makes you step up to the plate. And, you know, for me personally, I like that. He would rather embarrass himself than embarrass the player.

The thing that I get excited about or like, the thing that I enjoy every single day is when you have a group of guys in the locker room fighting for a common cause. You know, we talked about what are you guys trying to do? You're trying to win. You're trying to get to pick. You're trying to, you know, what are you trying to do? And I said that the integrity of competition was there. Mike I was talking talking to my friends, man, and I was talking about eradicated,

obliterated, devastated.

They thought I was talking about Iran, but I was talking about the bull.

Have you ever had more difficult season because of all the basketball circumstances?

In all honesty, this is probably the most I've dealt with personally.

So if someone's not interested in Billy as our coach and Billy wants to be our coach

and someone's not interested in that, then they're probably not the right candidate for us.

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