Following long stint with Bulls, Jeff Tanaka building relationships after moving to Fire
Courtesy of the Fire After spending 12 years with one Chicago sports team, Jeff Tanaka is adjusting to working with another. Let go by the Bulls in May 2020 after the team hired executive vice president of basketball operations Arturas Karnisovas and general manager Marc Eversley to revamp the franchise, Tanaka became the Fire’s head athletic trainer last fall. When the Bulls moved on from him, the Sun-Times reported that Tanaka wasn’t being ‘‘scapegoated’’ for injuries but that the new brass wanted to bring in someone it chose. ‘‘It was disappointing, obviously,’’ Tanaka ...
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