{"id":485406,"date":"2026-02-25T10:01:55","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T09:01:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=485406"},"modified":"2026-02-25T10:01:55","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T09:01:55","slug":"chicago-bulls-anfernee-simons-recovering-after-aggravating-left-wrist-fracture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/chicago-bulls-anfernee-simons-recovering-after-aggravating-left-wrist-fracture\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago Bulls\u2019 Anfernee Simons recovering after aggravating left wrist fracture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1815\" data-end=\"2103\"><strong data-start=\"1815\" data-end=\"1832\">Chicago Bulls<\/strong> guard <strong data-start=\"1839\" data-end=\"1858\">Anfernee Simons<\/strong> aggravated a previous left wrist fracture, coach Billy Donovan said Tuesday after additional imaging. Simons exited Saturday\u2019s 126-110 loss to the <strong data-start=\"2006\" data-end=\"2025\">Detroit Pistons<\/strong> with what was initially labeled a sprain and did not play in the second half.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2105\" data-end=\"2387\">Donovan called it \u201can old injury\u201d from Simons\u2019 time with the <strong data-start=\"2166\" data-end=\"2184\">Boston Celtics<\/strong>, noting the fracture \u201chasn\u2019t quite healed\u201d and that the expectation is he can return once the pain settles following evaluation by a hand specialist. The coach did not provide an exact return timetable.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2389\" data-end=\"2633\">In six games (five starts) with Chicago since arriving at the trade deadline in the deal that sent <strong data-start=\"2488\" data-end=\"2506\">Nikola Vucevic<\/strong> to Boston, Simons is averaging 15.2 points in 28.4 minutes. The Bulls, meanwhile, are on a season-worst 10-game losing streak.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Billy Donovan offers no firm timeline, saying a hand specialist believes he can return once pain subsides<\/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":[],"typology":[179],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-485406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","typology-injury"],"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\/485406","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=485406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485406\/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=485406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=485406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485406"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=485406"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=485406"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=485406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}