When the Chicago Bulls hired Vinny Del Negro in June 2008, he was regarded as an outside-the-box hire. Here was a young, well-liked member of the basketball fraternity coming off a two-year stint in the Phoenix Suns' front office. The Bulls brass admired Del Negro's charisma and felt he was the right leader to put in the bunker withe Bulls' combination of young players and established veterans. Two years later, the Bulls fired Del Negro after consecutive 41-41 seasons. But only a couple of months after his departure from Chicago, the Clippers tapped Del Negro to lead its core of young talent along with Baron Davis and Chris Kaman. Evaluating Del Negro's legacy in Chicago is an inordinately difficult task. Del Negro's defenders point to two playoff appearances in two years and the maturation of Derrick Rose, Joakim Noah and Taj Gibson. Despite being undermined by management in Chicago and losing Ben Gordon, he had the Bulls on track. Naysayers saw an inexperienced and unsophisticated tactician who struggled to build a coherent offense. Whatever your appraisal of Del Negro, he comes to the Clippers job not as a potential wunderkind, but as a guy with something to prove. We sat down with Del Negro following the Clippers' first summer league game on Monday night. http://espn.go.com/blog/truehoop/post/_/id/18084/vinny-del-negros-second-act
