Casey, Del Negro awaiting offer

Mon., June 9, 2008

Chicago Tribune The Spokesman-Review

CHICAGO – On April 17, the day he fired Jim Boylan, Chicago Bulls general manager John Paxson said he preferred but wouldn’t mandate previous coaching experience for his hire as the team’s next coach.

Weighing that very issue will come into play as, barring a surprise, Paxson will offer the job to former Minnesota coach Dwane Casey or Suns assistant general manager Vinny Del Negro.

Those two, plus a longer shot in Kings assistant coach Chuck Person, expected to know Paxson’s decision late Sunday or sometime today.

Casey owns the most experience, serving as an assistant in Seattle for more than a decade, and is the only candidate who has been an NBA head coach. Del Negro never has coached before. Person has assisted Rick Carlisle in Indiana and currently works under Reggie Theus in Sacramento.

Barring a trade, the Bulls will have the first pick in the June 26 NBA draft.

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