As the Bulls continue to conduct interviews for their top basketball operations job, Bryan Colangelo is the latest veteran executive to emerge as a candidate. Shams Charania of The Athletic reports (via Twitter) that Colangelo has interviewed with Chicago for the open position.
As we detailed earlier this afternoon, the list of candidates to interview for the Bulls’ job now includes Nuggets GM Arturas Karnisovas, Jazz GM Justin Zanik, former Hawks GM Wes Wilcox, and former Cavs, Hawks, and Pelicans GM Danny Ferry, in addition to Colangelo.
Colangelo previous served as the head of basketball operations in Phoenix, Toronto, and Philadelphia, winning Executive of the Year awards in 2005 with the Suns and in 2007 with the Raptors.
His time with the Sixers memorably came to an end in 2018, when he resigned after just two years following allegations that he was using burner Twitter accounts to disparage 76ers players and to disclose private information about them. Subsequent reporting found that Colangelo’s wife was responsible for creating some or all of those accounts and publishing that sensitive info.
The Bulls have already interviewed five candidates and may not be done, but Karnisovas still looks like the odds-on favorite. The Nuggets GM “made a strong impression” on the Bulls during their search, according to ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski, who tweets that conversations are ongoing.
I guess the Bulls want to do their due diligence and interview plenty of candidates. But this is definitely not the guy to hire.
After what Colangelo did in philly ain’t no way should be in Chicago
His dad has a lot connections and is probably doing a lot of work in the background.
so we have one guy whose had to resign after him or his wife sabotaged the team via twitter. danny ferry who was caught making racist remarks and a bunch of other guys who wont even interview. great.
Is he still married to that woman? I honestly don’t know… but if he is, I’d think that would be a pretty serious obstacle to his getting hired.
Chicago thought they were interviewing him but it was actually her!
Laughed so hard I spit my coffee!!
I can hardly imagine his wife was doing something like that without his knowledge.
Completely with you, but if they were split up, he’d likely thy the “hey, I got rid of her” bit…
*try
To be fair, Ferry was reading a scouting report written by someone else.
And nobody liked Luol Deng.
Thibs would disagree with that statement.
I see on Twitter that Colangelo is getting a lot of positive vibes.
I see what you did there)
Hinke >>>>>>>
Colangelo would be great for the Knicks hahahahaha
Man my phone is turning me into Johnny Two Times tonight.
Ferry didn’t make a racist statement. He was dumb enough to read one off a scouting report. Small mistake to ruin a career.