Overview
- Reporting on May 20, 2026 identified Jerry Stackhouse as a candidate for the Bulls’ open head-coach job after he left the Golden State Warriors staff.
- Stackhouse’s resume includes an 18-year NBA playing career, assistant roles with Toronto and Memphis, head coaching at Vanderbilt, and two seasons on Steve Kerr’s Warriors staff from 2024 to 2026.
- The Bulls plan to pursue interviews with multiple assistants and have flagged Charlotte’s Lamar Skeeter and Atlanta’s Ryan Schmidt as permission requests the team intends to seek.
- The coaching search follows Billy Donovan’s offseason departure and front-office turnover that saw Bryson Graham take over basketball operations after the team finished 31-51 and missed the playoffs.
- No hire has been made and the process remains contingent on other teams granting interview permission, so the next steps will be formal interview requests and meetings that could shape Chicago’s approach for 2026–27.