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Spiegel & Holmes Show

Billy Donovan praises Nikola Vucevic after Bulls trade him to Celtics

Spiegel & Holmes Show

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Sports

4.2652 Ratings

🗓️ 3 February 2026

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Matt Spiegel and Laurence Holmes listened and reacted to Bulls coach Billy Donovan's comments on center Nikola Vucevic after Chicago agreed to trade him to Boston on Tuesday afternoon.

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0:00.0

Speakle and homes.

0:01.1

We've got through a hot grease now, man.

0:03.0

Afternoons on the score.

0:04.2

Let's listen to Donovan.

0:09.7

Hell yeah.

0:14.6

Yeah, I love me some Donovan.

0:17.8

This isn't the Donovan that we're going to be listening to for the majority of this last segment, though. What do you mean? What are you talking about? Well, there's stuff going on. Donovan Leach, Ione Sky's father. Who is Ad Rock's father-in-law? Yeah, that's true. Is that right? Are they still married? I think they're divorced. Okay. Yeah, so Ad Rock from the Beastie Boys was the son-in-law of Donovan. That's one of Q-Tips' line. Ad Rock is Downward Iowny. Oh, that's awesome. I love that. So, yeah, so here's Donovan Leach, the British singer-songwriter, talking about the Bulls. That's not what's happening right now. What? Here's new Seattle, Seattle Mariners' second baseman.

0:58.0

Brendan Donovan. No, not him either.

0:59.0

It's also not Donovan Mitchell, although it would be interesting to get his point of view.

1:04.0

Right now would be very interesting on his soon-to-be teammate James Hardin.

1:08.0

But no, this is Billy Donovan.

1:09.0

Good job, boys.

1:10.0

Thank you, Adam Stensky, for hustling this and turning it around. There's Billy Donovan on the trades, which you can't really officially talk about because they're not quite done, but everybody knows what's actually happening. Billy, on the Indian reporters, is Nicole Bucis out tonight because he's not with the team. You've talked many times about his professionalism over the years.

1:28.9

Can you give us a sense of your thoughts on his professionalism?

1:32.4

Yeah, he's been great.

1:33.4

I mean, the time that I've had, you know, to be able to spend with him, you know,

1:38.3

when the trade happened with him coming to Orlando, the first thing is, I think as the game is evolved, and it always is kind of changing,

1:48.0

you know, there's more threes, faster-paced. He's kind of always adjusted, which I really respected.

1:53.0

I always appreciated. He was always available. You know, he played a lot of games, and he was always available,

1:59.0

and in a league where a lot of guys get hurt, you and and aren't able to play rightfully so he found a way to always get himself ready to play and he was reliable and you can rely on him not to say they never missed any games but he was really reliable um i just appreciated you know he was generally one of the first guys in there every day took care of his body i mean even last we land, go to the hotel, and, you know, I go down in the weight room, he's already running on the treadmill. You know, it's just that kind of professional. I think it's good for some of the younger guys to be able to see, you know, how he prepares himself and how he gets himself ready to play. You also always talked about how strong relationship you guys built over time. Can you speak to that?

2:39.9

Yeah, I mean, he's, you know, I really got to know his family a little bit. He invited me to come over to Montenegro one summer. I spent, you know, several days over there with him.

2:44.3

You know, got a chance to meet his parents. Great family, you know just

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