Taj Gibson's first day as a coach came with a phone call he did not expect to last as long as it did. One day after retiring from the NBA and being named an assistant on Tiago Splitter's Bulls staff, Gibson described how Tom Thibodeau, his head coach during his early years in Chicago, reached out immediately. "Yesterday was such a whirlwind, but one of the first calls I got was from Tom Thibodeau," Gibson said in an appearance at 14.3 The Score. "I thought it was going to be like a quick little 10 minutes. It went from 10 minutes to almost an hour and a half call."
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