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Billy Donovan gives his voice after a rumor connected him to a position in Kentucky
Naturally, Billy Donovan’s name has been mentioned a lot following John Calipari’s departure from Kentucky.
It would also make logic. Donovan worked under Rick Pitino as an assistant coach at Kentucky from 1989 until 1994. He later went on to win back-to-back national titles with the Florida Gators in 2006 and 2007. This fact has gained a lot of attention recently because Dan Hurley’s UConn team is the first to have done it since Donovan’s Gators did so.
Donovan joined the NBA in 2015 and has led the Chicago Bulls as head coach since 2020. Even though Donovan recently recommitted himself to the Bulls, a reunion with the collegiate game at Kentucky would be a home run hire for the Wildcats.
He even went so far as to claim that since the Calipari news broke, he hasn’t even heard from Kentucky.
“I’ll just say this. Obviously, I spent my first five years in coaching when Coach Pitino gave me a job, two kids born there. I think like at all my stops, you have very, very fond memories,” Donovan said (h/t On3). “I have not been contacted by anybody, I haven’t spoken to anybody. My total commitment and focus is here to this team and to this group.
“I think with what we’ve been through this year and the way we started and we’ve talked about it, I give our guys a lot of credit to our guys for hanging in there and battling through some of the things we’ve had to battle through. And I’m with them on that, and I’m committed to them with that. Again, a lot of this stuff, I think sometimes turns out to be speculation. But I have not had any contact with anybody and my commitment is here.”
He also has the Bulls in a respectable position. They’re not as dominant as they formerly were, but they’ll be back in the NBA play-in competition.
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