Less than a month from the NBA recovery, the hype is slowly rising for fans of the 30 franchises on deck, but for one of them it’s been more grimace soup since yesterday. We are talking regarding the Bulls, who learned in the last hours that Lonzo Ball was once once more going to the pool table to treat his knee, he who had already been operated on last season and who has not played a basketball game since… month of January.
It all started so well. 13 points, 5 rebounds, 5 assists and 2 steals on average, more than 40% of the parking lot, and the Bulls had therefore found the perfect complement of Zach LaVine and DeMar DeRozan on the back lines of the Bulls, not to mention the ultra- precious of Alex Caruso and the very encouraging rookie season of Ayo Dosunmu. Only, Lonzo Ball’s medical background is not the most reassuring, to make it short his health record weighs the weight of a dead donkey, and last January Lonzo had to leave his classmates to treat a recalcitrant meniscus, the kind in which little bits of bone are constantly wandering around. Spoiler, Lonzo will be operated and will not see the parquet floor once more for the season, a shame for a franchise in reconquest and which will end up with a completely satisfactory season, a shame also for a player who was starting to get the icing once more and a real place among the leaders of the Bulls.
Injury Update:
Lonzo Ball will undergo an arthroscopic debridement of his left knee on Wednesday, Sept. 28 in LA.
He will be re-evaluated in 4-6 weeks.
— Chicago Bulls (@chicagobulls) September 21, 2022
The last news ? While we hadn’t had a lot of news for a few weeks, we learned yesterday that Lonzito should undergo an arthroscopy of his left knee, once more this damn knee, on September 28th, and that following this passage on the billiards it would take – at least – four to six weeks for the player to recover all of his means. 1) All of this brings us to the start of the regular season which will therefore be without the point guard and 2) we are currently on dates that have been balanced a little on the fly so there is nothing to indicate that the unavailability of the bug does not won’t last longerhe who is unfortunately known for not being the most solid step of the stair climb, at least as much as for his defensive skills and his recent progress in attack.
30, then 35, then 19, then 27 and once more 47. These numbers are not Lonzo’s season highs in scoring since the start of his career but those of his missed matches each season since his Draft. The file is starting to be heavy and it’s a shame, the file is starting to be very heavy and we therefore left for a new season halfway between the NBA and Grey’s Anatomy. Fuck it.