The Chicago Bulls are a walking disaster right now and every day new details are coming out about what happened during the well-publicized Sunday mutiny at the Advocate Center involving the players and head coach Jim Boylen.
According to Yahoo Sports' Chris Haynes and Vincent Goodwill, Jim Boylen told Bulls players during their meeting that San Antonio Spurs head coach Gregg Popovich would sometimes pull out all five starters to send a message. Boylen was an assistant coach with the Spurs for two years.
Upon hearing Boylen say that, a Bulls player responded in a not so polite way:
Boylen repeatedly referenced his days on the San Antonio Spurs staff and instances in which coach Gregg Popovich pulled all five players off the floor to send a message, sources said.
A player responded, sources said, telling Boylen in essence that they aren’t the Spurs and, more importantly, he isn’t Popovich.
The trust isn’t there between Boylen and the Bulls players, and Boylen did admit his method of pulling all five players was extreme in the moment, sources told Yahoo Sports.
The Bulls were embarrassed by the Boston Celtics on Saturday night at the United Center, losing by a franchise record 56 points. Bulls shooting guard Zach LaVine was upset that the starters were pulled out together for a second time in the game, and when Boylen decided to run a practice on Sunday instead of giving the team a day off after a back-to-back, all hell broke loose.
Bulls vice president John Paxson and general manager Gar Forman reportedly sat in on the meeting between the players and Boylen. The two men will somehow spin this in their favor and keep their job, though, as they have the job security that everyone in America strives for.
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