Former Chicago Bulls head coach Bill Cartwright has parted ways with the Osaka Evessa, the bj-league team he resurrected after an awful start last season.
In a news release posted on its website at midnight on Saturday, the Evessa announced that Cartwright's tenure as head coach has officially ended. Since the end of the regular season in late April, there were no definitive statements by the Evessa about their plans for the coaching staff.
Cartwright led the Evessa to 17 victories in 28 games. He took over a 5-19 team that had become the laughingstock of the league — with head coaches Zoran Kreckovic, who was canned after an 0-4 start, and Takao Furuya failing to steer the team in the right direction. The three-time champion had been a first- or second-place finisher in each of the previous seven seasons.