The Chicago Bulls have fired interim head coach Jim Boylan, the least effective babysitter since Elisabeth Shue.

His 24-32 record does not begin to describe how inadequate Boylan proved to be in the job. His attempts to curry favor with the veteran players in an effort to get them to play hard enough to secure a head coaching gig next season proved disastrous, as Judge Ben Wallace and other veterans set up a kangaroo court faster than you could say “washed up”.

Then Boylan lurched between what only a drunken astrophysicist (or Isiah Thomas) could favorably call ‘rotations’, stranding the young players that needed evaluation before season’s end at the end of the bench until it was far too late. After the fait was accompli, Boylan just let the boys run wild at the end, as can be seen in the 151-135 win in Milwaukee this week.
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