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NEW YORK – It wasn’t the type of talk Billy Donovan felt was necessary.
Not with the makeup of this group of Bulls players.
But successful NBA coaches are sticklers for the details, and a team preparing for a season in which $84 million in total salary is expiring for six different players in possible walk years isn’t exactly a small item to be swept under the rug and ignored.
So Donovan had the talk anyway, more of a just in case.
“Right when training camp started, I addressed all this because we have seven or eight guys that are in the same situation, and I think it’s very easy if you’re not in the rotation or you’re not playing well to start to press, start to think about yourself,” Donovan said.