The
Chicago Bulls are an American professional
basketball team based in
Chicago, Illinois. They are a member of the
Central Division of the
Eastern Conference in the
National Basketball Association (NBA). The team is owned by
Jerry Reinsdorf and
Billy Donovan
William John Donovan Jr. (born May 30, 1965) is an American professional basketball coach and former player. He has served as head coach of the Chicago Bulls of the National Basketball Association (NBA) since September 2020 after previously coa ...
is the current head coach. They play their home games in the
United Center. The Bulls first joined the NBA in the as an expansion team. Coached by
Johnny Kerr, the team finished its first season with a 33–48 record, the best record achieved by an expansion team in its first year of play, and secured a playoff berth.
The Bulls won their first NBA championship in the
1991 NBA Finals
The 1991 NBA Finals was the championship round of the 1990–91 National Basketball Association (NBA) season, and the conclusion of the season's playoffs. It was also the first NBA Finals broadcast by NBC after 17 years with CBS.
The Eastern ...
while coached by
Phil Jackson.
They won five additional NBA championships in the 1990s under Jackson.
There have been 21
head coaches for the Bulls franchise. Phil Jackson is also the franchise's all-time leader in regular season games coached, regular season games won, playoff games coached, and playoff games won.
Jackson and
Jerry Sloan are the only Bulls coaches to have been inducted into the
Basketball Hall of Fame as a coach.
Kerr,
Dick Motta, Jackson, and Thibodeau have won
NBA Coach of the Year with the team.
Ed Badger,
Bill Berry
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,
Bill Cartwright,
Pete Myers and
Jim Boylan have all spent their entire NBA head coaching careers with the Bulls.
Sloan, Cartwright, and Myers formerly played for the Bulls.
Key
Coaches
''Note: Statistics are correct through April 11, 2022.
File:Doug Collins gestures.jpg, Doug Collins coached the Bulls from 1986 to 1989.
File:Phil Jackson Lipofsky.JPG, alt=Phil Jackson at a game, Phil Jackson won six championships with the Bulls from –.
File:Vinny Del Negro.jpg, Vinny Del Negro coached the Bulls to back to back playoff appearances during his two-year tenure with the team.
File:Tom Thibodeau cropped.jpg, Tom Thibodeau coached the Bulls from 2010 to 2015
File:Fred Hoiberg 2010.jpg, Fred Hoiberg coached the Bulls from 2015 to 2018
Notes
* A running total of the number of coaches of the Bulls. Thus any coach who has two or more separate terms as head coach is only counted once.
* Each year is linked to an article about that particular NBA season.
References
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Chicago Bulls head coaches
Lists of National Basketball Association head coaches by team
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Head coaches