The Chicago Bulls are expected to undergo changes after this latest injury-plagued season, which has left Jim Boylen's team with very little aspirations. Doug Collins, a former Bulls coach in the late '80s who was hired as the senior advisor of basketball operations in 2017, has had a falling out with Boylen, as the latter no longer wanted him present during his coaches' meetings, according to K.C. Johnson of NBC Sports Chicago.
Boylen has been known to operate the way he wants to, and while he is reportedly in close touch with the front office, it appears Collins sitting in on those meetings wasn't part of his vision.
While every team has an advisor of sorts to bring in a fresh outside perspective to the front office, it's almost unheard of to have one so closely entrenched with day-to-day coaching operations.
Teams like the New York Knicks have overstepped this boundary before when they hired an outside firm to analyze the way practices ran and asked coaches to write detailed reports on how players were progressing. The experiment proved to be a complete debacle, with the firm being ousted shortly after.
Collins was also nearly hired as coach of the Bulls nearly 20 years after being fired by the franchise, but he and owner Jerry Reinsdorf soon decided not to open up a second stint at that point.
The long-tenured NBA head coach hasn't been the biggest fan of some of the choices the Bulls have made following his initial firing, and he has been known to not see eye to eye with general manager Gar Forman — yet his ties to the Reinsdorf family have kept him in the organization.
Infamously, Collins once supported trading Michael Jordan for not being “a winning player,” but he went on to coach him even after his three-year tenure with the Bulls as the coach of the Washington Wizards after coming back from his second retirement.
Both coaches are fairly disliked by the fan base, but this new beef is bound to make fans drop the broth to see what else comes out of that pot.
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