{"id":713384,"date":"2026-06-19T10:36:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T10:36:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/713384\/"},"modified":"2026-06-19T10:36:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T10:36:14","slug":"im-actually-a-bulls-fan-myself-splitter-admitted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/713384\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cI\u2019m actually a Bulls fan myself,\u201d Splitter admitted. \u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nba\/players\/4306\/\" data-i13n=\"sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link\" data-ylk=\"slk:Tiago Splitter;sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link;itc:0\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Tiago Splitter&quot;,&quot;ySubModuleName&quot;:&quot;anchor_text&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tiago Splitter<\/a> has been watching the <a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nba\/teams\/chicago\/\" data-i13n=\"sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link\" data-ylk=\"slk:Bulls;sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link;itc:0\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Bulls&quot;,&quot;ySubModuleName&quot;:&quot;anchor_text&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bulls<\/a> from afar. Not just Wednesday morning before his introductory news conference at the Advocate Center, not just earlier this season when he was a thousand miles away trying to right the ship in Portland, and not just years ago when he was a championship player in <a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nba\/teams\/san-antonio\/\" data-i13n=\"sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link\" data-ylk=\"slk:San Antonio;sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link;itc:0\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;San Antonio&quot;,&quot;ySubModuleName&quot;:&quot;anchor_text&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">San Antonio<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/chicago.suntimes.com\/bulls\/2026\/06\/17\/tiago-splitter-foxhole-mentality-new-bulls-coaching-seat\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:\u201cI\u2019m actually a Bulls fan myself,\u201d Splitter admitted. \u201cGrowing up in Brazil, I watched many games late at night, hidden from my parents at 1 am, watching MJ [Michael -Jordan] games and rooting for the Bulls. So super excited to be here.\u201d;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;\u201cI\u2019m actually a Bulls fan myself,\u201d Splitter admitted. \u201cGrowing up in Brazil, I watched many games late at night, hidden from my parents at 1 am, watching MJ [Michael -Jordan] games and rooting for the Bulls. So super excited to be here.\u201d&quot;}\" class=\"link \">\u201cI\u2019m actually a Bulls fan myself,\u201d Splitter admitted. \u201cGrowing up in Brazil, I watched many games late at night, hidden from my parents at 1 am, watching MJ [Michael -Jordan] games and rooting for the Bulls. So super excited to be here.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/chicago.suntimes.com\/bulls\/2026\/06\/17\/tiago-splitter-foxhole-mentality-new-bulls-coaching-seat\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Chicago Sun-Times;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Chicago Sun-Times&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Chicago Sun-Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tiago Splitter has been watching the Bulls from afar. Not just Wednesday morning before his introductory news conference&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":713385,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[42236,355,6999,99,222193,14978],"class_list":["post-713384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-bulls","tag-nba","tag-san-antonio","tag-sports","tag-tiago-splitter","tag-wednesday-morning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=713384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713384\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/713385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=713384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=713384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=713384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}