{"id":1991350,"date":"2026-06-15T16:22:56","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T13:22:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1991350"},"modified":"2026-06-15T16:22:56","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T13:22:56","slug":"tiago-splitter-to-leave-blazers-and-become-bulls-head-coach-sources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1991350","title":{"rendered":"Tiago Splitter to leave Blazers and become Bulls\u2019 head coach: Sources"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"Article_ContentContainer__jBNW3 article-content-container bodytext1\">\n<p>The Chicago Bulls have hired Tiago Splitter as their franchise\u2019s next head coach, according to team and league sources who spoke to <em>The Athletic <\/em>on the condition of anonymity because an official announcement had not yet been made.<\/p>\n<p>Splitter, 41, took over as the Portland Trail Blazers\u2019 interim head coach at the beginning of the 2025-26 season after Chauncey Billups <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/6743095\/2025\/10\/23\/nba-federal-gambling-investigation-arrests-investigation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">was arrested<\/a> as part of two federal investigations into illegal gambling charges. Splitter guided the Trail Blazers to a 42-40 record and their first playoff appearance since 2021. Portland lost to the San Antonio Spurs in five games in the first round.<\/p>\n<div id=\"top-league-content-root\"><\/div>\n<p>    {&#8220;endpoint&#8221;:&#8221;https:\/\/api-prd-nyt.theathletic.com\/graphql&#8221;}<\/p>\n<p>The Trail Blazers, under new owner Tom Dundon, are conducting an open search for their next head coach. Splitter was a candidate for the position but will be filling Chicago\u2019s vacancy instead.<\/p>\n<p>ESPN was first to report the news.<\/p>\n<p><em>This story will be updated.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chicago Bulls have hired Tiago Splitter as their franchise\u2019s next head coach, according to team and league sources who spoke to The Athletic on the condition of anonymity because an official announcement had not yet been made. Splitter, 41, took over as the Portland Trail Blazers\u2019 interim head coach at the beginning of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[226,241],"class_list":["post-1991350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-crawlmanager","tag-nytimes-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1991350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1991350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1991350\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1991350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1991350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1991350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}