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New Chicago Bulls head coach Jim Boylen has been a hot topic of discussion over the past week after his players held a players-only meeting last Sunday, but things seem to be improving. After a controversial few days, the Bulls rallied from a 21-point deficit against the San Antonio Spurs on Saturday night, emerging from […]

Amid all the chaos surrounding the Chicago Bulls, new head coach Jim Boylen said that San Antonio Spurs boss Gregg Popovich offered him his support. The Bulls have recently gone through a coaching change. They fired former Fred Hoiberg and promoted assistant Jim Boylen to the head coaching position. Since then, it’s been quite a […]

Thursday evening the Chicago Bulls lost to the Orlando Magic by a score of 97-91. Nikola Vucevic had 26 points, 10 rebounds and 2 assists. D.J. Augustin added 15 points, 7 rebounds, and 2 assists as well in the win for the Magic. Later on in the evening, it was reported by Milika Andrews of […]

Chicago Bulls new coach Jim Boylen has had its share of troubles during his short-lived tenure at the helm of a young roster, yet he insists implementing a culture, the way the San Antonio Spurs have over the years, is the key to sailing this ship forward. “What I have to do is install this […]

Chicago Bulls head coach Jim Boylen says he’s not going to change how he coaches the team despite what has transpired over the last few days, according to K.C. Johnson of the Chicago Tribune. Jim Boylen is a completely different coach than Fred Hoiberg. He’s more demonstrative and demanding, both in games and practices, and it’s […]

Chicago Bulls shooting guard Zach LaVine took matters into his own hands after seeing the transition to a new culture under new coach Jim Boylen had gone haywire from the onset, as several veterans protested his two-and-a-half-hour practices and constant nitpicking of their choices on the court. LaVine met with Boylen on Sunday after the […]

Charlotte Hornets point guard and longtime San Antonio Spurs star Tony Parker has chimed into the controversy involving Jim Boylen and the Chicago Bulls, particularly when the head coach pulled a Gregg Popovich and subbed out all five players twice in a historic loss to the Boston Celtics. Prior to the incident which, according to […]

The Chicago Bulls are in chaos since Jim Boylen took over, but that doesn’t mean the new coach is already in the hot seat. In fact, it’s the total opposite as the Bulls’ front office remains supportive of the 53-year-old coach, who took the reins at Chicago after Fred Hoiberg was fired last week. It […]

The Chicago Bulls are experiencing utter turmoil and the latest rumor to surface involves a veteran player threatening to fine any player who would show up to practice Sunday. According to Vincent Goodwill and Chris Haynes of Yahoo Sports, a Bulls veteran started a group text and pushed players not to attend in the team’s […]

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 […]

After firing Fred Hoiberg due to to the Chicago Bulls’ poor start to the season amid a supposed lack of spirit, the team promoted associate head coach Jim Boylen, a Gregg Popovich disciple.  Lauri Markkanen, Bobby Portis and Kris Dunn have all suffered injuries this season. Even with Zach LaVine’s breakout season, these injuries have made […]

The Chicago Bulls players were not happy after new coach Jim Boylen promised a full-on practice the morning after the team played a back-to-back, even reaching out to the NBPA over what is viewed as a regimental no-no in the NBA, according to Chris Haynes and Vincent Goodwill of Yahoo Sports. A Bulls veteran then […]

Chicago Bulls head coach Jim Boylen clarified what took place on Sunday after a report by The Athletic initially pointed to a potential team-wide mutiny after a few players were in disagreement with Boylen’s decision to hold a practice after back-to-back games. The coach, now one week into the job, set the record straight in […]

The Chicago Bulls are coming off a historic home loss, a 133-77 defeat at the hands of the Boston Celtics, the worst in NBA history. This monumental loss included two wholesale substitutions by new head coach Jim Boylen, the first in the opening quarter after quickly falling into a 17-0 hole, then another early in […]

Jim Boylen has reached a full week as the full-fledged coach of the Chicago Bulls in the immediate wake of Fred Hoiberg’s firing last Monday. With this move comes praise, criticism and a keen eye reserved only for the man at the spotlight of this team’s fate throughout the season. The Bulls’ front office has […]

Chicago Bulls interim head coach Jim Boylen has disputed reports that there was a players-only meeting on Sunday. It’s been a challenging weekend for the Bulls after they suffered their worst loss in franchise history on Saturday night in falling 133-77 to the Boston Celtics at the United Center, giving the Celtics a 56-point win […]

The Chicago Bulls are in a free fall after recently firing head coach Fred Hoiberg and interim head coach Jim Boylen is off to a historically bad start. The team’s ineptitude is highlighted in one simple stat that compares Boylen with Hoiberg and perhaps unfairly with Phil Jackson. "Unfaltering strides in the right direction…" 40+ […]

New Chicago Bulls head coach Jim Boylen made bold moves in the team’s embarrassing 133-77 home loss against the Boston Celtics on Saturday night. After seeing lackluster effort from his starters in the first five minutes of the game, Boylen immediately pulled his entire starting five and subbed in his second unit. In the second […]

Chicago Bulls head coach Jim Boylen is already making some bold moves just a week into his new job. The former associate head coach quickly hooked his entire starting five with over seven minutes remaining in the first quarter as the Boston Celtics raced to a 13-0 lead. He also pulled the plug on them […]

The Chicago Bulls made history on Saturday night, and not for the right reasons. The Bulls suffered their worst loss in franchise history in a 56-point thumping at the hands of the Boston Celtics. After the game mercifully finished, new Bulls coach Jim Boylen was clearly frustrated with his starting unit’s play and sent a […]

Chicago Bulls head coach Jim Boylen is a polar opposite of ex-coach Fred Hoiberg. Boylen is demonstrative and likes to run long practices, similar to Tom Thibodeau. Needless to say, it’s taking some time for the Bulls to get used to their new coaches’ hard practices, something shooting guard Zach LaVine admitted to on Friday: […]

The cavalry is on the way for the Chicago Bulls. Less than a week after Lauri Markkanen returned from a sprained elbow, new head coach Jim Boylen acknowledged the “possibility” of Kris Dunn and Bobby Portis returning from their respective knee injuries Friday against the Oklahoma City Thunder: There's a possibility that Dunn and/or Portis […]

The Chicago Bulls are seemingly heading into the slaughterhouse this season. They’ve struggled so badly that they are currently at the bottom of the standings in the Eastern Conference. Bulls management has made steps to somehow improve the struggling team. They fired head coach Fred Hoiberg Monday after a disastrous 5-19 start to their 2018 […]

New head coach Jim Boylen ran the second practice of his new tenure at the helm of the Chicago Bulls, and if his introductory press conference wasn’t enough sign of it, Boylen intends to make clear changes in Chicago. For starters, the new coach intends to put the Bulls’ $40 million signing to work right […]

More details have emerged about the circumstances that led to the recent firing of Chicago Bulls former head coach Fred Hoiberg. In his lengthy writeup for The Athletic, Darnell Mayberry discussed in detail how it was allegedly associate head coach Jim Boylen (who was promoted to head coach following the departure of Hoiberg) who had […]

John Paxson, the head of basketball operations for the Chicago Bulls, said the decision to fire former head coach Fred Hoiberg was the right one: “We made a difficult decision today, but one we feel is the right decision at the right time,” said Paxson at a Monday press conference, per the Bulls’ official Twitter account. […]

The Chicago Bulls announced the firing of Fred Hoiberg Monday, along with the intent to keep newly promoted head coach Jim Boylen beyond this 2018-19 season, according to vice president of basketball operations John Paxson, per ESPN’s Malika Andrews. Boylen is still under contract until the end of the 2019-20 season, but it’s likely that […]

The Chicago Bulls made a crucial decision to fire head coach Fred Hoiberg after a 5-19 start, leaving associate head coach Jim Boylen with full-time duties for at least the remainder of the season. Boylen only has one more year left on his contract after this season, and while John Paxson said Monday he could remain the coach […]

In the wake of Fred Hoiberg’s firing on Monday morning, Jim Boylen has been promoted from assistant to head coach of the Chicago Bulls. Boylen’s promotion leaves a vacancy in the team’s assistant ranks but it sounds like management isn’t ready to make any additions yet. There are no immediate plans to add to the […]

In the immediate wake of the firing of head coach Fred Hoiberg, the Chicago Bulls plan to make Jim Boylen the permanent head coach for at least the rest of the season and not give him an interim tag, according to ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski. Boylen is signed through the 2019-20 season, paying him just under […]