Source: Thibodeau accepts Bulls' offer

Its really between Avery Johnson and going back to the drawing board, since Avery may have an offer from Atlanta shortly.

All the other people to be interviewed are just courtesy interviews and attempts to put some pressure on Avery Johnson. That includes Mike Brown, Mark Jackson and any current Assistant Coaches.

I don’t doubt that Thorn would extend a courtesy call to Phil and Doc the moment the playoffs are over, but by then a contract should be prepared, ready for Avery to sign.

Next week should be a 2nd interview for Avery, when they meet to begin to go over terms of a potential contract.

If LeBron signs with the Bulls, and that is a distinct possibility, then Thorn has a lot of explaining to do. All I’ve heard is a bunch of big talk. We’re going after Coach K, but then we never even contact the guy, much less make him an offer. We talk about Phil Jackson like that is a real possibility. There is a “big surprise” in our coaching search. Is it that there is no surprise? That we are just winging this most important off-season ever?

The Bulls just out-manuevered us. They signed the best coaching candidate and one who might very well be LeBron’s choice. Of course, we’ll see, but if LeBron to Chi-town happens, we are going to get a new GM, and not a moment too soon. Thorn should have gotten canned for transparently throwing Kiki under the bus and for stunting the development of our young talent. Now we are saying that “everything is new”, but we are doing nothing except interviewing an idiot retread coach whose dominant regular season teams won just 20% of their last 15 playoff games. Reminds me of the slogan “Day one, everything changes”. Remember whose that was? Eliot Spitzer, and we all know how that turned out. Hope I’m wrong, but the buzz is wearing off.