WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 Chicago Bulls coach Billy Donovan appreciates the endorsement from team president and CEO Michael Reinsdorf.<\/p>\n
Just don\u2019t read too much into it, Donovan suggested before Chicago’s game against the Washington Wizards on Thursday night.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think Michael was making the point of how he felt about me,\u201d Donovan said after Reinsdorf made it clear Tuesday he wants him to remain in the job. \u201cBut I also understand that, like I said, everybody\u2019s got to look out for what is best for the Bulls at that point in time.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Bulls made sweeping changes to their front office on Monday, firing executive vice president of basketball operations Arturas Karnisovas and general manager Marc Eversley after a six-year run produced just one playoff appearance.<\/p>\n
Donovan has yet to decide on his future, however. The 60-year-old plans to meet with Reinsdorf after the season.<\/p>\n
\u201cI love it here,\u201d Donovan said. \u201cI\u2019ve loved the relationship piece. Not only Jerry and Michael, but the people in the building, the staff. It\u2019s been an awesome working environment, and I enjoy it. But we\u2019re at this place because we really haven\u2019t won a lot.\u201d<\/p>\n
Donovan is finishing his 11th season in the NBA and sixth with Chicago, after he appeared in the playoffs in each of his five seasons in Oklahoma City.<\/p>\n
His teams have advanced beyond the first round only once, when Oklahoma City reached the 2015-16 Western Conference finals in his first season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 Chicago Bulls coach Billy Donovan appreciates the endorsement from team president and CEO Michael Reinsdorf.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":593624,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[68419,225644,49,48,8930,225645,225646,459,200422,200416,218875,82],"class_list":["post-593623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-billy-donovan","tag-bulls-billy-donovan","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-district-of-columbia","tag-marc-eversley","tag-michael-reinsdorf","tag-nba","tag-package-100502-member-choice-sports-option","tag-product-30599-ap-sports-news-s-wire-only","tag-product-40784-ap-illinois-sports-only","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=593623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593623\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/593624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=593623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=593623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=593623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}