William John Donovan Jr. is an American professional basketball coach and former player who is the head coach for the Chicago Bulls of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He coached previously for the Oklahoma City Thunder from 2015 to 2020. Before moving to the NBA, he served as the head basketball coach at the University of Florida from 1996 to 2015, and led his Florida Gator teams to back-to-back NCAA championshipsin 2006 and 2007, as well as an NCAA championship appearance in 2000.
Donovan was born and raised in Rockville Centre on Long Island, New York, where he played basketball at St. Agnes Cathedral High School. He was the starting point guard for Rick Pitino's Providence College squad and led the Friars to the 1987 Final Four. As such, he is one of only four men (Dean Smith, Joe B. Hall and Bobby Knight being the others) to appear in the NCAA Final Four as a player and win the NCAA national championship as a coach.After college, Donovan spent the 1987–88 and 1988–89 basketball seasons split between the developmental Continental Basketball Association and the NBA's New York Knicks, who were led by his former college coach, Rick Pitino.
| Chicago Bulls Current Roster |
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| 0 White • 2 Ball • 3 Giddey • 5 Carter • 7 Smith • 9 Vučević • 11 Dosunmu • 12 Collins • 13 Huerter • 14 Buzelis • 15 Phillips • 17 Young (TW) • 20 Miller (TW) • 22 Horton-Tucker • 25 Terry • 30 Jones • 32 Liddell (TW) • 44 Williams |
| Players who left during the season: 00 Steward • 8 LaVine • 13 Craig • 21 Sanogo • 27 Duarte |
| Head coach: Donovan • Assistant coaches: Bryant • Cotter • Craig • Schmidt • Unseld Jr. |