Brandon LaChance over at Bulls Home says he has a source that says Michigan State head coach Tom Izzo is interviewing with the Bulls today.
From an anonymous source from within the Tom Izzo camp, I have been informed that Tom Izzo will be interviewing today for the Chicago Bulls head coaching vacancy.
I’m not sure why he put the word “anonymous” in there. Is the source anonymous to LaChance or anonymous to us? If it’s the former, someone could have just emailed the site and claimed he was in “Izzo’s camp” and knew about the interview.
If it’s the latter and LaChance knows the name of the source and can verify that he’s an Izzo confidant, then this story could very well be true.
There is a long list of very successful college coaches that have struggled on the NBA level. Larry Brown is the only coach to win a title at both levels.
That said, Izzo is a very good coach and is smart enough to learn from the mistakes of others. However, he won’t have the benefit of the stability of the Spartan program or his ability to out-recruit his competition.
More on this story/rumor as it develops.
Wednesday afternoon update: I contacted Brandon LaChance and confirmed that the source is known to him, but doesn’t want his name revealed.
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