Hello and welcome to the game theory podcast. I'm your host Sam Vassini.

We're presented by CLNS Media. Today on the show, we've got good friend of the program,

Ricky O'Donnell, making his triumphant return to the podcast

because, hey, the Bulls made some news yesterday. They decided to fire Fred Hoyberg and I guess

move in the direction of Jim Boylan because that's a thing that people do. Before we get into

all of that, Ricky, how's it going man how is how is life in chicago right now

life is great in chicago right now uh you know the bulls are a huge burden on my life in general

but it's okay there's some decent pieces larry markanin's coming back that's going to give us a

reason to watch wendell carter's been solid i'm really really interested to see how him and Mark and play off each other.

So life's good, despite the fact that, you know, the Bulls keep making mistake after mistake, it seems like.

Yeah, I mean, we should absolutely talk about the Bulls just making mistake after mistake.

We're going to talk a little bit about the NBA in general and a little bit about the draft

at the end because Ricky covers the draft over at SB Nation as well.

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For sure, we'll read some ads here in the middle of the show.

But Ricky, what was your initial reaction yesterday whenever you see the news?

Hey, Fred Hoyberg is no longer going to be the Chicago Bulls basketball coach.

He lasted, if I remember correctly, three years in 24 games.

Yeah.

I was not surprised that the Bulls fired him midseason and that was something

we were talking about even from the onset of the year one of the biggest questions this season was

like would hoiberg make it through the year would he get fired midway through the season you

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