Now let's see Skiles' skills long term.(Sports)

0 Comments | Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), June, 2005

Byline: Mike Imrem OK, let's see what Scott Skiles really is made of now that the Bulls gave him one of the NBA's most lucrative coaching contracts. The deal makes sense, I guess. The Bulls wanted him. He wanted the Bulls. It figured to get done despite the alarms of the past couple of days.

Skiles' agent said Monday on the Score that negotiations were over, and everybody took him seriously. This was three weeks before the Bulls' deadline to exercise a one-year option on Skiles, five months before their next scheduled game ... And negotiations between the Bulls and Skiles were supposed to be over? All because a freakin' agent said so? My goodness, when did anybody ever take an agent at his word before? By the way, Skiles and Bulls chairman...

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