{"id":41483,"date":"2026-04-22T04:24:30","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T04:24:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/billy-donovan-chicago-bulls-head-coach-resigns-after-six-seasons\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T04:24:33","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T04:24:33","slug":"billy-donovan-chicago-bulls-head-coach-resigns-after-six-seasons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/billy-donovan-chicago-bulls-head-coach-resigns-after-six-seasons\/","title":{"rendered":"Billy Donovan: Chicago Bulls head coach resigns after six seasons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Billy Donovan has resigned as head coach of the Chicago Bulls, ending his six-season tenure, after missing out on the play-offs.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Bulls wanted to retain Donovan&#8217;s services despite parting company with vice president of basketball operations Arturas Karnisovas and general manager Marc Eversley on 6 April.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Donovan, 66, held an option in his contract for next season but has decided to step down to allow a new coach to rebuild.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;After a series of thoughtful and extensive discussions with ownership regarding the future of the organisation, I have decided to step away as the head coach of the Chicago Bulls, to allow the search process to unfold,&#8221; Donovan said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I believe it is in the best interest of the Bulls, to allow the new leader to build out the staff as they see fit.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/basketball\/articles\/c7vq484mveno?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Billy Donovan has resigned as head coach of the Chicago Bulls, ending his six-season tenure, after missing out on the play-offs. The Bulls wanted to retain Donovan&#8217;s services despite parting company with vice president of basketball operations Arturas Karnisovas and general manager Marc Eversley on 6 April. Donovan, 66, held an option in his contract [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41484,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41483"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41483"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41485,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41483\/revisions\/41485"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}