“There has been a little more slowness to the process,” one person told Sporting News, requesting anonymity in the sensitive situation. “You have one big name out there who is not really out there yet, and so there has not been the big flood of interviews you would expect to see. It’s been a holding pattern.”

But despite what the players were told, the Bulls have made no final decision on Thibodeau’s future. He has a contract in place for two years, and he stated after the Bulls were eliminated from the postseason that he had every intention of fulfilling that contract.

Want the drop? Got the drop at Sports Nation . . .