Veteran Bulls assistant coach Chris Fleming won’t return next season as part of Billy Donovan‘s staff, according to Shams Charania of The Athletic, who reports (via Twitter) that assistant Maurice Cheeks also won’t be back in a full-time role on the bench.
Confirming Charania’s reporting, K.C. Johnson of NBC Sports Chicago says that Cheeks is expected to have a position elsewhere in the organization. That decision was solely Cheeks’, Johnson adds.
In other Bulls coaching news, second-row assistant John Bryant is expected to move to the front of the bench for the 2024/25 season, according to Johnson, who notes that Josh Longstaff will be in the mix to become Donovan’s new lead assistant. Longstaff isn’t the only candidate receiving consideration for that role, however, per Johnson.
Fleming, formerly an assistant in Denver and Brooklyn, was the lone assistant on the Bulls’ staff who held that role prior to Donovan’s arrival in 2020. Fleming joined the team in 2019 after stints in Denver (2015-16) and Brooklyn (2016-19).
Cheeks was hired by the Bulls along with Donovan in 2020. The former All-Star guard has had head coaching stints with the Trail Blazers, Sixers, and Pistons and worked for several years as an assistant in Oklahoma City.
Yeah hiring some new assistants will definitely make this team a serious contender.
Karsinovas is full of crap, they won’t make any big changes and run with the same group again. Bulls had the highest attendance in the NBA, Reinsdork knows he doesn’t have to pay the tax and the fans will still come piling in.
Wake me up when changes come to ownership.
Donovan should be gone …..
That will never happen as the owner and front office are in love with him.
The Bulls have an owner problem…
Which leads to GM and coach problems…
The GM can’t spend as they would of on a team trying to win… So when the coach is inept they have to shuffle as many things as they can without spending too much…
Donovan is a college coach… Not fit for the NBA…