Tiago Splitter sounds strikingly similar to Arturas Karnisovas
Spiegel & Holmes Show
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🗓️ 15 June 2026
⏱️ 14 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Thank you. We, me and Michael, and it's going to be done collaboratively, we want the right guy. |
| 0:07.0 | And if I said, you're, you're picking him. |
| 0:09.6 | Oh, yeah, I'm picking up. I picked you. You get to pick the coach. |
| 0:14.7 | Absolutely. |
| 0:17.6 | Bryson Graham and Michael Reinsdorf talking about the choices that are available to the Bulls |
| 0:22.9 | and who's going to be in charge of doing that. |
| 0:25.4 | And Bryson Graham has made a choice. |
| 0:27.6 | And that choice is Tiago Splitter, the interim head coach of the Portland Trailblazers. |
| 0:35.4 | But then their owner who just ended up winning the Stanley |
| 0:39.2 | Cup, because he's the owner of the Carolina Hurricanes, started getting real cheap with |
| 0:45.0 | trailblazers, and there was talk that he wasn't going to give a legitimate contract to |
| 0:52.5 | Tiago Splitter that was commensurate with the rest of the coaches in the |
| 0:56.6 | NBA. So there's Tiago Splitter available for anyone to hire him and the Bulls have. |
| 1:02.3 | And the Bulls cast a very wide net. There were a lot, what as many as 12 or 14 initial |
| 1:10.7 | interviews. And then they got down to the four that they |
| 1:14.7 | wanted to interview in person, and Splitter wins that job. |
| 1:18.0 | And Tanny thought that we would enjoy, and he's right. |
| 1:21.9 | He's right. |
| 1:23.1 | Really getting to know this guy's personality. |
| 1:27.1 | Like there's stuff that you can look at on the resume, and the resume is impressive. |
| 1:32.0 | He comes from the Spurs organization. |
| 1:34.7 | So he's got some of that Pop Spurs thing going on. |
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