Is Michael Reinsdorf backtracking on Billy Donovan?
Dan Bernstein Unfiltered
312 Sports
4.6 • 734 Ratings
🗓️ 9 April 2026
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
On this episode of Dan Bernstein Unfiltered, Dan reacts to recent comments from Chicago Bulls owner Michael Reinsdorf regarding head coach Billy Donovan. Is Reinsdorf softening his previous stance on Donovan and the idea that the next Bulls GM would be required to retain him? And does Donovan even want to stay in Chicago moving forward?
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Dan also weighs in on the White Sox’s Pope-themed hat giveaway and wonders if the joke is already wearing thin. Plus, a discussion of Ken Rosenthal’s reporting on umpires pushing back against the new ABS challenge system and what it says about the direction of the game.
Elsewhere, Matt recommends another TV show he knows Dan won’t watch—adding to a growing list—and Dan shares an update on the ongoing Kit Kat heist.
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| 0:28.6 | dan bernstein unfiltered unfiltered on 312 sports. |
| 0:44.5 | DBU on 312 brought to you in partnership with my bookie. And I'm getting the sense that some of what's going on with the Chicago Bulls |
| 0:50.6 | and the Michael Reinsdorf press conferences is coming off a little bit as ready fire aim. |
| 1:00.9 | And I need to be careful with this criticism in some ways because they did something. |
| 1:06.9 | And I don't want to scare anybody off from doing something. |
| 1:10.9 | And if somebody say, well, you know, you wanted us to fire everybody and we did and now you got a problem with that. |
| 1:16.8 | No, I don't. |
| 1:18.9 | I'm just trying to figure out what the actual stance is right now of Michael Reinsdorf, of ownership, and the people orbiting him, including |
| 1:30.0 | John Paxon, and I presumably, purportedly, based on their master, that Doug Collins remains |
| 1:36.7 | an advisor as well. We don't know who is, who is his primary sounding boards are for some of these |
| 1:43.7 | things on the basketball side, |
| 1:45.4 | which is part of a larger bulls problem and is reminiscent of an old bear's problem |
| 1:50.2 | of people who don't really know the game all that well and are relying on some of these |
| 1:56.3 | in and around the game voices remaining in their planetary system to deliver some of this wisdom. |
| 2:05.3 | But in the responses that the athletic received from Michael Reinsdorf about some of what he did, |
| 2:15.4 | I'm not sure that they were quite prepared for his words a couple days ago |
| 2:21.3 | to mean what they ended up meaning and whether the intent of his words has matched the impact of his words. |
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