The Chicago Bulls will be without new guard Anfernee Simons indefinitely.
Imaging on Simons’ left wrist revealed he had aggravated a previous fracture in the team’s loss to the Detroit Pistons on Saturday. It’s unclear how long Simons will now be sidelined.
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Simons left the Bulls’ 126-110 loss to the pistons on Saturday with what the team initially called a sprain, and he didn’t play in the second half. But imaging revealed the fracture, which Donovan said actually stemmed from an old injury he suffered when he was still with the Boston Celtics.
“The fracture hasn’t quite healed and I think him seeing a hand specialist, they felt like, you know, once the pain subsides that he’s fine to go back to play,” Donovan said, via The Associated Press. “The last time it happened to him, it was in training camp in Boston. It was like a week or 10 days.”
Simons was dealt to the Bulls in a deal ahead of the deadline earlier this month in exchange for center Nikola Vučević. He’s appeared in six games with the Bulls, and averaged 15.2 points and three assists per contest since landing in Chicago.
Simons is in his eighth season in the league. The Portland Trail Blazers first selected him with the No. 24 overall pick in 2018, and he spent his first seven seasons there before they sent him to Boston in a deal for Jrue Holiday last June.
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The Bulls entered Tuesday night’s game against the Charlotte Hornets with just a 24-34 record. They are on a nine-game win streak and have lost 12 of their last 13 games. They currently sit in 12th in the Eastern Conference standings with 23 games left in the regular season, and are on pace to miss the playoffs for a fourth straight year.
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