Chicago Sun-Times · Nov 3, 2025
Bulls roster headed for key changes so talk was given ... just in case
Bulls coach Billy Donovan admitted to having a sit-down with his team at the start of training camp concerning all the expiring contracts guys are playing under. His message was they all needed each other and had to pull the rope the same direction.Nam Y. Huh/AP
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.
