{"id":747745,"date":"2026-05-30T07:45:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T07:45:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/747745\/"},"modified":"2026-05-30T07:45:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T07:45:18","slug":"bulls-have-spoken-to-kevin-young-about-coaching-vacancy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/747745\/","title":{"rendered":"Bulls Have Spoken To Kevin Young About Coaching Vacancy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Bulls have expressed interested in and spoken to Kevin Young as they continue to look for a new head coach, reports Jamal Collier of ESPN (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/JamalCollier\/status\/2060516070612509080\" rel=\"nofollow\">via Twitter<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Young, who interviewed for several previous NBA head coaching vacancies, is currently the men\u2019s basketball head coach at Brigham Young University. He <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hoopsrumors.com\/2024\/04\/top-assistant-kevin-young-leaving-suns-for-byu.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">reportedly<\/a> signed a seven-year, $30MM contract with the Cougars in 2024 offseason.<\/p>\n<p>A former Division II college basketball player, Young quickly transitioned to coaching, spending several years as both an assistant and head coach in the G League (then known as the D-League). He became an assistant coach with the Sixers in 2016 and landed the top assistant job with the Suns in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Young, a native of Salt Lake City, spent four years as the associate head coach in Phoenix prior to joining BYU a couple years ago.<\/p>\n<p>As <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hoopsrumors.com\/2026\/05\/2026-nba-head-coaching-search-tracker.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">our tracker<\/a> shows, the Bulls are casting a wide net in their search, having been linked to several candidates. Collier specifically mentions Trail Blazers interim head coach Tiago Splitter as one of those candidates (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/JamalCollier\/status\/2060516956638244950\" rel=\"nofollow\">Twitter link<\/a>). Jake Fischer of The Stein previously <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hoopsrumors.com\/2026\/05\/coaching-rumors-splitter-blazers-bulls-bickerstaff-more.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">reported<\/a> that Chicago was interested in speaking to Splitter but it was unclear if Portland would permit those talks.<\/p>\n<p>Chicago\u2019s search is being led by <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hoopsrumors.com\/2026\/05\/bulls-hire-bryson-graham-as-head-of-basketball-operations.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">new<\/a> head of basketball operations Bryson Graham, who was hired away from Atlanta earlier this month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Bulls have expressed interested in and spoken to Kevin Young as they continue to look for a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":747746,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3771],"tags":[7,920,919,329,3824,8541,6,15840],"class_list":["post-747745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-chicago-bulls","tag-basketball","tag-bulls","tag-chicago","tag-chicago-bulls","tag-chicagobulls","tag-kevin-young","tag-nba","tag-tiago-splitter"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116662417718694817","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=747745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747745\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/747746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=747745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=747745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=747745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}