{"id":494181,"date":"2026-04-24T17:34:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T15:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=494181"},"modified":"2026-04-24T17:34:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T15:34:12","slug":"chicago-bulls-austin-brown-withdraws-from-head-of-basketball-operations-search","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/chicago-bulls-austin-brown-withdraws-from-head-of-basketball-operations-search\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago Bulls, Austin Brown withdraws from head of basketball operations search"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"2511\" data-end=\"2888\">The <strong data-start=\"2515\" data-end=\"2532\">Chicago Bulls<\/strong> have lost one of the more closely watched names in their front-office search. According to <strong data-start=\"2624\" data-end=\"2632\">ESPN<\/strong>, <strong data-start=\"2634\" data-end=\"2650\">Austin Brown<\/strong> has elected <strong data-start=\"2663\" data-end=\"2680\">not to pursue<\/strong> the franchise\u2019s <strong data-start=\"2697\" data-end=\"2730\">head of basketball operations<\/strong> position. The development comes as Chicago has already started its first round of interviews with candidates this week.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2890\" data-end=\"3215\">Brown had been listed among the profiles the Bulls were expected to consider in the early stage of the process. Reuters, citing ESPN, had previously reported that Chicago received permission to interview several NBA executives and that Brown was also part of the expected candidate pool.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"3217\" data-end=\"3494\">The search is taking place during a major organizational reset for the franchise. In recent days, the Bulls have gone through significant changes after a 31-51 season and following <strong data-start=\"3398\" data-end=\"3417\">Billy Donovan\u2019s<\/strong> departure from the head coaching role.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to ESPN, Austin Brown, the co-head of CAA\u2019s basketball division, has decided not to pursue the Chicago Bulls\u2019 head of basketball operations job<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":372103,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[399],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-494181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/02\/Chicago-Bulls.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=494181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494181\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/372103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=494181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=494181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=494181"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=494181"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=494181"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=494181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}