PHOENIX - Billy Donovan knew a bad idea when he heard one. Put on this cowboy hat and these spurs and we'll take a picture of you, his coach told him. Maybe we'll even put it on the front of the ...

Beal, a highly touted recruit from Missouri, averaged 14.8 points per game and earned SEC All-Freshman Team honors and a first-team All-SEC selection under Donovan’s tutelage.

As if their rejection wasn’t firm enough, the Chicago Bulls perhaps officially charged at the idea of the New York Knicks hiring their head coach Billy Donovan.

Donovan at least has some ties to the organization, having played briefly for the Knicks back in the late 1980s, when Rick Pitino was coach. Donovan played for Pitino in college at Providence.

Billy Donovan is from Long Island and has ties to New York, with his good friend Maurice Cheeks already on the Knicks coaching staff, and having coached Jalen Brunson for Team USA in the 2014 FIBA ...

Bulls locking down front office and coach Billy Donovan with extensions According to a source, those talks have heated up, signaling that Karnisovas and GM Marc Eversley have already been extended ...

The Dallas Mavericks’ Jason Kidd and the Chicago Bulls’ Billy Donovan are two the New York might circle back to in the coming weeks, according to league sources.

Billy Donovan is from Long Island and has ties to New York, with his good friend Maurice Cheeks already on the Knicks coaching staff, and having coached Jalen Brunson for Team USA in the 2014 FIBA ...

Donovan at least has some ties to the organization, having played briefly for the Knicks back in the late 1980s, when Rick Pitino was coach. Donovan played for Pitino in college at Providence.