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The Bulls entered the NBA for the 1966-67 season after Chicago had experienced decades of disappointment with professional basketball teams. "They'd had the Stags, the Packers, the Zephyrs," Kerr told the Chicago Sun-Times. "We were trying to sell something in a city that was a failure for it." The Stags had lasted four years in the 1940s before folding; the Packers, who became the Zephyrs, had spent two seasons in Chicago, then became the Baltimore (later Washington) Bullets.
Kerr was brought in as the Bulls' first head coach, and he tabbed close friend Al Bianchi as an assistant. Jerry Colangelo was in the front office. Colangelo and Kerr played pickup games in the preseason against the Bulls' top draft choices and weren't heartened by the results. "Johnny and I didn't lose a game all summer," Colangelo later told the Sun-Times. "I knew we were in trouble."
Kerr struggled through the bumpy days of an expansion team in his typical style. In the midst of a losing streak, Kerr tried to pump up the team in a pregame talk in Boston. He told Bob Boozer to pretend he was the best scorer in basketball, Jerry Sloan to pretend he could stop anyone in the game, Guy Rodgers to pretend he was the top point guard in the league, and Erwin Mueller to pretend he was a rebounding machine. "We played the Celtics at the Garden -- green banners hanging everywhere -- and lost by 17," Kerr recalled for the Phoenix Gazette. "I was pacing around the locker room afterward, trying to figure what to say when Mueller walked up, put his arm around me and said, 'Don't worry about it, coach. Just pretend we won.' "
