12:00pm: Wade said today that if the Bulls make the playoffs and he gets medical clearance, he intends to return for the postseason (Twitter link via Friedell). However, those are both big ifs.
11:50am: After leaving Wednesday’s game with a right elbow injury, Dwyane Wade was diagnosed today with a sprain and a small fracture in that elbow, the Bulls announced (via Twitter). According to the team, Wade will be out for the rest of the regular season.
The Bulls’ announcement explicitly states that Wade will miss the rest of the “regular” season, so it’s not clear if he’d have the opportunity to return in the playoffs if the club were to sneak in. Given how poorly Chicago has played lately even with Wade in the lineup though, that may be a moot point. Having lost six of their last seven games, the Bulls currently have a 32-36 record. That puts them one game back of the Heat and the Pistons, who are tied for the No. 8 seed in the East.
Wade, who inked a two-year, $47MM contract last summer, has averaged 18.6 PPG, 4.5 RPG, and 3.9 APG in his first year with the Bulls, shooting a career-worst 43.4% from the floor. If the veteran guard doesn’t suit up again for Chicago this season, it’s possible he has played his last game with the team. Wade will have to make a decision this offseason on a $23.8MM player option for 2017/18.
Wade’s health figures to play a part in his decision on that option. According to K.C. Johnson of The Chicago Tribune (Twitter link), Wade told reporters today that he won’t undergo surgery to repair the break in his elbow. Nick Friedell of ESPN.com adds (via Twitter) that the 35-year-old will be re-evaluated in a week.
Rondo’s vets wouldn’t have done that to their elbow…
Haha! Didn’t Wade throw little Rondo’s ass to the floor when he was with Boston. What injury did Rondo suffer?
Daggum, if it wasn’t a dislocated elbow!
You don’t get where I was going with that… it’s okay
Hang it up Wade. It’s time.
He’s averaging 19PTS, 4.5REB, 4AST. Hardly time to say it’s time to hang it up. Just because the Bulls haven’t produced how everyone thought doesn’t mean Wade still wasn’t having yet another solid/under the radar season.
It’s time. He’s done and old. Bulls made a huge mistake signing him. Terrible choice, almost as bad as Rondo. No one outside the Bulls front office expected either signing to work out and they both ended up as everyone expected – pathetic and terrible.
Bulls BLOW!! Reinsdorf sucks. Foreman and Paxon don’t know where their ass is. And Hoiburg is just lost.
Dude, Strauss, we get it. The Bulls front office is horrible and Reinsdorf is a crappy owner. But every damn article about the Bulls doesn’t need the same thing said in different words. Not saying I don’t agree with you. This organization will be pathetic until they get GarPax and Reinsdorf gone. Just like the White Sox will be terrible until they get rid of the same owner and Kenny Williams. Butler and Wade both need to go too. One is a cry baby and the other let his ego blow up after he had his good 2014
It was a good move from a business standpoint. Which is all the Bulls owner cares about.
It was a terrible move from a basketball standpoint. The Bulls owner couldn’t care less about the fans, or putting a championship caliber team on the floor.
The scam is to simply make the playoffs every year, and give the casual fan a few big names they know — in order to keep the seats filled. That ensures more revenue.
Quit using statistics and sound logic to counter baseless trolling!
You’re the troll. Contribute to the convo or stfu
Ironic, considering your username.
I hate my town, so?
Take the option on 23 million, then a buy out and join the Cav! For playoffs 2018!
Tough year for him with that bad organization. Hope he recovers well. Probably needs to opt in for next year, but maybe he’ll get a buyout late in the season, like Joe johnson last year
Rondo was actually a good signing, but signing wade afterward didn’t fit together. It would have made more sense for either or and grab guys around them. Hoiberg is also a really bad coach
*sigh* I thought I was replying to an above comment…
I think they need to sign five more point guards of the future
lmfao