News about Billy Donovan

On Tuesday night, the Boston Celtics used a controversial tactic to advance to the knockout round of the NBA in-season tournament. Joe Mazzulla, the Chicago Bulls' coach, ordered his players to continually insult opposition center Andre Drummond in an attempt to suffocate the game's closing stages. Mazzulla hoped that doing so would help their team maintain their point differential high enough to progress to the quarterfinals of the in-season tournament.

Billy Donovan, the Chicago Bulls' coach, was asked to leave the locker room on Wednesday after his players had a team meeting to desect their 124-104 loss to the Oklahoma City Thunder. When Donovan returned from the courthouse at United Center, Bulls stars were already in talks. After a 'terrible' start to the season that prompted concerns about players' 'heart' on the court, they asked the coach if they could have the locker room to themselves. Guard Zach Lavine explained later, 'Guys want to win.' In game one, you're going to have some discussions.'

Victor Wembanyama, France's top export, is poised to replace wine as France's top export, a 7-foot-4 basketball sensation. He's athletic, skilled, vast, and yet only 19, so the winning team will undoubtedly be considered very lucky as the league selects its first pick on Tuesday night in New York. It's either way or not Wembanyama will feel the same way. The 14 teams in Tuesday's lottery aren't all positive, and that's by design. The lottery is supposed to enhance the league's bottom feeders by (slightly) deterring them from tanking their seasons in an attempt to land a top talent in the draft, such as Wembanyama. Mail Online's preview of Wembanyama's 14 future teams, how he'd fit, and what these clubs need to do to attract the NBA's most coveted prospect in a generation.

In the final Eastern Conference playoff game 102-02, the Chicago Bulls defeated the Miami Heat 102-0-0 to claim the No. 1 spot. Seed 8 is the eighth seed. On Sunday, they will face the Milwaukee Bucks in the first round of the NBA Playoffs. This marks the second consecutive playoff appearance for the Bulls in three years under head coach Billy Donovan

Both the Chicago Bulls and the Detroit Pistons have touched down in Paris ahead of their regular-season game against the Accor Arena on Thursday, and some celebrities wasted no time in heading straight to the gym. For the first time since January 2020, the NBA returns to Europe this week, when Paris hosted a game between the Milwaukee Bucks and the Charlotte Hornets shortly before the Covid-19 pandemic. The Bulls, who have previously won six titles and three-time champions, are due to clash in the French capital this week after being thrown out for NBA Paris Game 2023.

After conversion only one of his 14 shots, Chicago Bulls forward Zach LaVine was suspended for the final minutes of Friday's loss to the Orlando Magic. The Bulls were trying to recover from a double-digit deficit in the fourth quarter of the 108-107 loss after coach Billy Donovan benched LaVine for the final 3:43 minutes of the game. Lavine, who earned four points, seemed to disagree with the call postgame but revealed he had to take his shots at the start of the game and live with it.