Complain? That wasn’t Fred Hoiberg’s style.
Suffer out loud? Not a chance.
But fired is fired. And the first time it happened to Hoiberg, it hurt like hell.
“Initially, I wasn’t very good at handling it,” he said this week, recalling those early days after the Bulls kicked him to the curb in December of last season. “I had a lot of sleepless nights. I did a lot of staring at the ceiling in the night.”
It was quite a thing for “the Mayor” to sort through the feelings associated with such outright rejection, not to mention the uncertainty about what his next move would be.