<p>As someone who doesn’t fit the typical profile of an NBA coach, Tiago Splitter isn’t a fan of labels.</p><p>“Foreign, big guy, 6-11 —you don’t see many of those [as coaches],” said Splitter, a champion with the Spurs during a seven-year NBA career before becoming an assistant coach, then the Timberwolves’ interim coach last fall and now the Bulls’ head coach. “I was behind the bench in Houston with the Rockets, and I wanted to prove people wrong because sometimes we [assign] labels like that. So that’s the reason I went to Paris [to coach in 2024-25].