Jim Boylan : : Living in the Moment

Bulls Interim Head Coach gets his chance to lead an NBA team
Jim Boylan : : Living in the Moment

Jim Boylan


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Jim Boylan
By Brett Ballantini | Posted March 19, 2008

We tend to measure success with the most obvious markers, and in sports those markers are clear: wins and championships.

And, when we need to dig a little deeper to detect success, the qualifier is passion; losses are somehow diminished by how much a player laid himself out on the floor. Consider how often you as a fan determine a player’s worth based on how red in the face he gets over a play, win or lose.

But one little prefix could spell the difference between Jim Boylan becoming just another head coach, to be ground up in the NBA mill, and his ultimate success in charge of the bench: com-. As in, compassion.