Chicago Bulls have sacked coach Jim Boylen after the team failed to once again make the NBA play-offs.
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The Bulls, who finished 22-43 this season, were one of the eight teams that didn't qualify for the NBA's restart at Walt Disney World.
That meant the franchise missed out on the post-season for the fourth time in five years - a tough stretch for a team whose dominance in the 1990s was recently chronicled in the ESPN documentary "The Last Dance."
The move was hardly a surprise. Only Tim Floyd (.205) had a lower winning percentage than Boylen (.317) in franchise history.
A long-time NBA assistant, Boylen got his first head coaching job in the league in December 2018 when the Bulls fired Fred Hoiberg after a 5-19 start.
Boylen led the Bulls to a 17-41 record the rest of the way and a 22-43 mark in this pandemic-interrupted season after getting a contract extension.
The Bulls were 11th in the Eastern Conference before play was stopped in March because of the coronavirus.
In a grim reminder of how far the Bulls had fallen, Chicago hosted the All-Star game, yet no Bulls were on the rosters.
Australian Associated Press