Bulls swingman DeMar DeRozan has entered into the league’s health and safety protocols, ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski tweets. The team plays the Nuggets on Monday.
Just hours before the announcement, DeRozan was named the Eastern Conference’s Player of the Week. DeRozan posted averages 30.3 PPG, 5.7 RPG, and 4.0 APG while shooting 58.7% from the floor in wins over Charlotte, New York, and Brooklyn.
He’s the fourth Bulls player who has entered protocols this season, Darnell Mayberry of The Athletic tweets.
DeRozan will need to produce two consecutive negative PCR tests at least 24 hours apart, or be isolated for at least 10 days. It’s obviously a big blow in the short term for a much-improved team that owns a 16-8 record. Following tonight’s home game, Chicago goes on a two-game road trip to Cleveland (Wednesday) and Miami (Saturday).
If DeRozan must sit out for 10 days, he’d also miss next Tuesday’s home game against Detroit and the Nov. 16 road game at Toronto.
A sign-and-trade acquisition from San Antonio, DeRozan has enjoyed an All-Star caliber season. He’s averaging 26.4 PPG, 5.3 RPG and 4.1 APG in 24 starts with his new team.
This sucks but hopefully they can be healthy when the playoffs start. Personally, I think Bryn Forbes and Thad Young would be the two missing pieces this team needs off the bench. One is an excellent 3 point shooter for his career and the other is a perfect blend to be the stretch 4 for this team. The problem is salaries. Young would need to be bought out and I’m not sure what the exact value for Forbes would be. But those two players are what they need and are missing right now.
Bulls cannot get back Thad Young because they traded him away. Not until next year.
Young agrees to a buyout with the Spurs, he’d still have to clear waivers before a team like the Bulls could sign him. Then, finally Young would have to want to come back to Chicago.
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It could happen. It’d be a great pickup
No, it can’t happen. They made a rule against this. Can’t sign a guy you traded away that same season.
Bummer
Even if it’s the offseason? I know it counts on the nba calendar year. It makes sense, few years ago Varejao was traded, then cut by Utah and couldn’t resign with Cavs and ultimately signed with Warriors. Thanks for the heads up.
I knew DeRozan would be good in Chicago. Didn’t think he’d be this good. He’s Bulls MVP by far right now.
that’s not what you were saying in the summer.
This is really getting serious now.
Oo cmon,i dont mind we lost coby and javonta,but carushow and ddr are very important to us
They are all important, man. Tonight’s game showed that. This team is starting to look like championship contenders, never out of any game, 1 through 15. Even that stiff Thomas hit a key basket tonight.
What a bummer. Now the Bulls will be without DeRozan, White, Green, Caruso (groin) and Patrick Williams. Guess if this has to happen, better early in the season than later. Wish the Bulls could get back Stanley Johnson whom the Bulls cut before the season began. Or James Ennis. Or as other people have mentioned Thad Young. All three would help actually.
Still got the W
Ayo stepped up to the plate and hit a Grand Slam tonight.
Man, the health & safety protocols are ruining the season, when are they gonna just let the guys play!
Letting players who could transmit the virus to their teammates, staff and opposition seems like it would disrupt more than the protocols. That is not a hard one to figure out.
Everyone is transmitting it to everyone anyway. Go hide in your basement for another few years.
Really? Would you like someone with the stomach flu to sit next to you at work? I think you’d rather hide in your basement.
Disco – Your 1st sentence is absurd. Your 2nd refers to who should be making the rules and that role should go to sane, rational people. Come to our next meeting you might learn something new.
Disco is dead
Right. “Protocols” is an absolute joke.