Chicago Bulls head coach Billy Donovan is at a crossroads in April.
The Bulls are set to miss the playoffs, and their prospects of being competitive anytime soon are slim after trading away Coby White, Nikola Vucevic, and Ayo Dosunmu.
In six seasons in Chicago, Donovan, a Basketball Hall of Fame coach, has made the playoffs just one time before losing in the first round to the Milwaukee Bucks.
Amid the end of the season coming up for the Bulls, Donovan has been mentioned as a plausible candidate for North Carolina, an option that would make sense for a two-time national champion with the Florida Gators.
Per Joe Cowley of the Chicago Sun-Times, it appears Donovan has an ultimatum of sorts for owner Jerry Reinsdorf. He can either fire executive vice president of basketball operations Arturas Karnisovas or Donovan will leave after the season.
Chicago Bulls have a decision to make on Billy Donovan
After the fallout of the Jaden Ivey drama with the Bulls (which Karnisovas was warned about from the Detroit Pistons), Donovan appears to be losing his patience with the front office.
“If Karnisovas stays, there’s a growing chance that Donovan walks at the end of the season,” Cowley wrote. “Then the Reinsdorfs will leave Karnisovas with a coaching search, a lottery draft choice, and free agent decisions with money to spend.
“This front office can’t even get trade dumps at the deadline right, let alone being trusted to map out the immediate future of an organization that has gone from bad to national embarrassment.”
The wise move for the Bulls would be to fire Karnisovas regardless of what Donovan does this offseason. Chicago needs a new leader to rebuild the roster.
Frankly, it would be hard for Donovan and fans to stomach a few more losing seasons together.
The Bulls blew it up with the roster at the trade deadline. This spring, it’s time to clean house with the front office and maybe at the head coach.
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