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The Chicago Bulls have agreed to a multi-year contract extension with head coach Jim Boylen, according to Adrian Wojnarowski of ESPN.
What a roller-coaster ride it has been for Boylen in his first year as head coach of the Bulls.
Boylen took over after Chicago fired Fred Hoiberg following a 5-19 start. Not long after he became the head coach, there were reports of players wanting to stage a mutiny against him, which did not look all that great for Boylen's future.
However, slowly but surely, the Bulls players started to buy into Boylen's system, and while Chicago went just 17-41 under his direction, there were notable signs of growth during the second half of the year, as Zach LaVine had the best season of his career and young bigs like Lauri Markkanen and Wendell Carter Jr. showed a lot of promise.
Prior to becoming head coach of the Bulls, Boylen served as Chicago's associate head coach for four seasons.
The 54-year-old first landed on an NBA bench back during the 1992-93 campaign, when he served as an assistant for the Houston Rockets, a position he held all the way through the 2002-03 season.
Following his 11-year stint in Houston, Boylen moved to the Milwaukee Bucks, where he held a job as an assistant for one season before heading to the Indiana Pacers, where he also served an assistant for one year.
He then joined Gregg Popovich's staff in San Antonio, winning a title with the Spurs in 2014 and spending two years there overall prior to linking up with the Bulls.
