{"id":480051,"date":"2026-01-21T08:40:23","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T07:40:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=480051"},"modified":"2026-01-21T08:40:23","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T07:40:23","slug":"chicago-bulls-hopeful-josh-giddey-returns-thursday-at-minnesota-after-11-game-absence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/chicago-bulls-hopeful-josh-giddey-returns-thursday-at-minnesota-after-11-game-absence\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago Bulls hopeful Josh Giddey returns Thursday at Minnesota after 11-game absence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1715\" data-end=\"2067\">The <strong data-start=\"1731\" data-end=\"1748\">Chicago Bulls<\/strong> are hopeful <strong data-start=\"1761\" data-end=\"1776\">Josh Giddey<\/strong> can return Thursday at <strong data-start=\"1800\" data-end=\"1813\">Minnesota<\/strong> after missing 11 straight games with a <strong data-start=\"1853\" data-end=\"1880\">strained left hamstring<\/strong>, coach <strong data-start=\"1888\" data-end=\"1905\">Billy Donovan<\/strong> said Tuesday before facing the Clippers. Donovan noted Giddey \u201cfeels pretty good\u201d and that the final call depends on the medical staff and how the guard feels.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2069\" data-end=\"2275\">Donovan added the feedback has been encouraging: \u201cThere were no setbacks and he\u2019s doing well.\u201d Giddey hasn\u2019t played since Dec. 31 against New Orleans, when he walked off gingerly early in the second half.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2277\" data-end=\"2556\">In his second season in Chicago after a trade from Oklahoma City, Giddey has been performing at an <strong data-start=\"2376\" data-end=\"2394\">All-Star level<\/strong>, averaging 19.2 points, 8.9 rebounds and nine assists, with seven triple-doubles. Donovan said the case for \u201cstrong consideration\u201d was there before the injury.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2558\" data-end=\"2709\">The Bulls were ninth in the East at 20-22 entering Tuesday. Forward <strong data-start=\"2626\" data-end=\"2646\">Patrick Williams<\/strong> missed the game with a right ankle sprain and is day-to-day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Billy Donovan says there were \u201cno setbacks\u201d as Giddey nears medical clearance from a left hamstring strain<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":372103,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[399],"tags":[],"rumors":[175],"typology":[183],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-480051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","rumors-nba-rumors","typology-rumors"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/02\/Chicago-Bulls.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=480051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480051\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/372103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480051"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=480051"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=480051"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=480051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}