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Doug Collins finally the beneficiary of good timing as Hall of Fame calls

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Former Bulls coach Doug Collins couldn’t get MJ over the championship hump, but that didn’t stop the HOF from calling on Saturday.

Doug Collins’ timing always seemed to be a little off.

Whether it was being robbed out of a gold medal in the infamous 1972 Olympics against the Soviet Union, being removed as Bulls coach just before the Michael Jordan-Phil Jackson duo grabbed six Larry O’Brien Trophies and cemented itself on the Mount Rushmore of NBA dynasties, or being brought back in as an advisor in 2017 to try and clean-up the organizational mess that proved uncleanable, Collins seemed to make a career out of being on the wrong side of luck.