Lonzo Ball will be reevaluated this week and “wants to come back and play,” Rob Schaefer of NBC Sports Chicago tweets.
A week ago, the Bulls announced Ball would not run for 10 days. His rehab from surgery to repair a meniscus tear in his left knee was halted after he felt discomfort in the knee. Ball’s reevaluation is expected to happen when the team returns from its road trip, which ends on Tuesday. There’s hope Ball can ramp up to full-speed running and cutting after he’s reevaluated.
“Lonzo really wants to come back and play. He wants to do everything possible…,” coach Billy Donovan said. “If we do start ramping up and [he doesn’t respond well again], I don’t know what they’ll do because we have not discussed that.”
Ball has been out since January 14.
We have from the Central Division:
- Jerami Grant, the Pistons’ leading scorer, will sit out the rest of the season due to a left calf strain, Keith Langlois of Pistons.com tweets. Grant suffered the injury against Washington on Friday. A prime trade candidate this offseason, he has one year remaining on his three-year contract.
- Pacers coach Rick Carlisle has returned to the sidelines after leaving the team for two games due to personal reasons, James Boyd of the Indianapolis Star tweets. “Felt very bad about not going on that trip because it’s just a hard set of couple games, given our personnel situation. But we’ve got seven (games) left, and we’ve got to focus,” he said.
- Guard Kyle Guy has rejoined the Cleveland Charge, the Cavaliers’ G League team, Chris Fedor of the Cleveland Plain Dealer tweets. Guy was waived by the Heat on Thursday. Guy signed a two-way contract with Miami in mid-January after playing with the Charge. He appeared in 19 games with Miami, averaging 3.9 PPG in 9.8 MPG.
- Cavaliers forward Dean Wade has a six-to-eight week recovery period from his knee surgery, Kelsey Russo of The Athletic tweets. The meniscus surgery on his right knee will be a cleanup procedure and he should be a full participant in Summer League activities, Russo adds.
Dont rush ball back to the game.he is important player for bulls.this season already done to me.but i dont disapointed.need to upgrade our big.gobert is my dream
Important especially for next season too!! They need Ball, they’ve shown that this year in his absence..
They were a great team mixed with offense ajd defense with Ball and Caruso both in the mix early on. It was like everyone complemented everyone else extremely well…
Yeah,with ball and caruso bulls are top 4 for defense.thats not a joke.
Right on, plus their defense, forced misses, steals, etc. led to alot of Ball fastbreaks and some easy baskets in transition, so they were functioning like a well oiled machine..
Plus, they didn’t even have Colby White as a bench sparkplug nor Patrick Williams as a versatile 4 at the time either. So, we never TRULY got to see what the Bulls could do when they were completely healthy and had their pre-planned roster/rotations…
I will say though, Dosunmu and Green have been two nice surprises to come out of all the injuries and missed games, but both are quality rotation bench players at this point in their careers, neither should be starters for a contending team…
Maybe Green or especially Dosunmu can grow into more complete, better all-around players, but Dosunmu wasn’t even really supposed to be getting hardly ANY minutes when he was drafted. So, he’s already outpacing his expectations, and he’s earned rave reviews from his teammates and especially Coach Donovan. I just hope he can continue to grow his overall game, because he’s a dog, and I love watching him. Dude plays with alot of love and passion for the game, and that’s always refreshing!!
I honestly think the league would be better with a
66 ~70 game season. I know the owners are never giving up 6~8 home games but with the pace, speed and strength in todays game 82 is just too much IMO
Have thought this for awhile but Covid kinda sidetracked the idea and now they are making up for its loses etc
Extend the AS break a little longer, get rid of all B2b’s basically let’s keep these guys healthy for when the best tournament in the world gets off the NBA playoffs.
Ehhh, idk if I is really “the best tournament in the world” but to each their own I suppose…
Don’t get me wrong, I love the NBA playoffs, but usually the first round is full of sweeps or mostly sweeps
But once it gets down to the second and especially third rounds, thats when it really gets to he some great entertainment!!
You don’t need to cut games, you can extend the season a couple months easily to play the same RS games, I mean half the teams have a ridiculous 6 months off, that in itself will cause many injuries, right?
I always say they could actually play 87 games in 8-8 1/2 months, then the 2 playoff months, that would be plenty of rest time & teams would have plenty of practicing time to actually develop players during the season, as it should be, not in the off season, which is for rest!
Yes… America is sports-mad… So many sports are selling tickets. Money will get made by someone!
It’s legit every week that the Pacers notes becomes the Celtics notes