Bulls coach Tom Thibodeau and management are on the verge of a big break up this off season. The rift between management and the coaching staff is so large that one assistant coach believed his office was being bugged.
Via Yahoo Sports Adrian Wojnarowski,
When a visiting scout visited the Bulls practice facility in the past year or so, he had the opportunity to watch the awkward, strange interplay between Bulls general manager Gar Forman and Thibodeau. Eventually, the man walked into the office of an assistant coach and asked: “What the hell is the deal here? Before answering, the coach turned his fan on full blast. For the visitor, everything was becoming even stranger. He gave the assistant a befuddled look, as though to say, “What are you doing?”
“I’m not taking any chances,” the coach said, refusing to risk the possibility of those walls being bugged.
The way that this feud has been silently brewing for so long, I can only imagine the lengths management may go in order to paint the coaches as the bad guys in this situation. It’s going to be hard to explain how they justify getting rid of a coach of Thib’s caliber unless they have a big name to replace him with.
