The Chicago Bulls have racked up over 2,200 regular-season wins throughout its long and rich history. Add 35 playoff appearances and six championships and you have one of the best NBA franchises ever.

Sure, the Bulls have had great players such as Michael Jordan, Scottie Pippen, Artis Gilmore, Jerry Sloan, Derrick Rose, Jimmy Butler and more, but they have also had some good coaches to lead the rosters.

For this piece, we ranked the five best head coaches in Bulls franchise history — starting with a guy who currently works for the organization as a senior advisor.

5. Doug Collins

Collins coached the Bulls from 1987-1989. He went 137-109 in the regular season and 13-17 in the playoffs.

He led the Bulls to three straight playoff appearances. However, the Eastern Conference Finals was the deepest Chicago went with Collins at the helm.

Collins is sort of like the Bulls' version of former Golden State Warriors head coach Mark Jackson. As soon as the Warriors replaced Jackson with Steve Kerr in 2014, Golden State won three titles in five years.

As soon as the Bulls replaced Collins with Phil Jackson, they won three championships in Jackson's first four years as coach.

4. Scott Skiles

The Bulls hired Skiles in 2003 after a stint with the Phoenix Suns from 1997-02. Chicago went 165-172 during the regular season under Skiles, who still holds the NBA record for most assists in a game (30).

The Bulls were 10-12 under Skiles in the postseason. His best players were guards Ben Gordon and Kirk Hinrich.

Since getting fired by the Bulls, Skiles had coached the Milwaukee Bucks and Orlando Magic.

3. Dick Motta

Motta was the second head coach in Bulls franchise history, replacing the legendary Johnny Red Kerr. He had a regular-season record of 356-300 with Chicago and a postseason mark of 18-29.

Over eight seasons, Motta took the Bulls to the playoffs six times. Superstars Bob Love and Jerry Sloan were Motta's best players, making Chicago a fun team to watch despite no championships being won during the Motta era.

After resigning from his post with Chicago, Motta was hired by the Washington Bullets. He led Washington to the 1978 NBA championship.

Motta has the second-most wins in Bulls franchise history as a coach.

2. Tom Thibodeau 

The Bulls hired Thibodeau from the Boston Celtics in 2010 and watched him turn the franchise into a winner again. In his first year with the team, Thibs led the Bulls to the best record in the NBA and a trip to the Eastern Conference Finals.

Thibs won the Coach of the Year award, while Derrick Rose became the youngest player in NBA history to win the MVP trophy (22).

Chicago lost to LeBron James and the Miami Heat in the 2011 Eastern Conference Finals in five games, but the future looked bright for Chicago.

The following season was the lockout year. The Bulls won 50 games and were primed to go on a Finals run with Rose leading the way.

However, D-Rose tore his ACL in Game 1 of the 2012 playoffs against the Philadelphia 76ers and Chicago's title hopes were gone. The Bulls lost to the Sixers in six games sans Rose.

In 2012-13, Thibodeau had to coach without Rose, who sat out the whole year. The Bulls still won 45 games and made it to the second round of the playoffs, where they fell to LeBron and the Heat again in five games.

Thibodeau finished his Bulls career with a regular-season record of 255-139. Chicago went to the playoffs all five seasons under Thibs, but Gar Forman and John Paxson fired him because they weren't getting along behind the scenes.

1. Phil Jackson

Six championships, 6-0 in the Finals. That's what Chicago did under the leadership of the Zen Master.

The Bulls went 545-193 under Jackson in the regular season. Chicago was 111-41 in the playoffs with Jackson, a record that is just remarkable.

During the 1995-96 season, Jackson coached Chicago to a then-record 72 wins in the regular season. The 2015-16 Warriors won 73 games, but they lost in the Finals.

The '96 Bulls, meanwhile, completed their magical season by defeating the Seattle SuperSonics in the Finals.