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Bulls fire coach Jim Boylen after missing playoffs again

The Chicago Bulls fired coach Jim Boylen on Friday, the new front office beginning its remake of a team that missed the playoffs again.

The Bulls, who finished 22-43 this season, were one of the eight teams that didn't qualify for the NBA's restart at Walt Disney World. That meant they wouldn't make the postseason for the fourth time in five years — a tough stretch for a franchise whose dominance in the 1990s was chronicled in the ESPN documentary "The Last Dance."

The move was hardly a surprise. Only Tim Floyd (.205) had a lower winning percentage than Boylen (.