The ASSOCIATED PRESS reports that during an interview being aired today on WGN-TV in Chicago, Bulls owner Jerry Reinsdorf intimated that former coach Scott Skiles basically asked to be fired.

Reinsdorf, who gassed the man who had taken up the mantle of best combover in Illinois since Lou Henson, said, “Something didn’t mesh right this year. Scott came to us eventually and said, ‘I think the team needs a new voice.’ … Scott realized that he wasn’t getting through to them. It was time to do something else.”

That might be true, but do you think Skiles wanted to be canned on Christmas Eve? Read more…