The Chicago Bulls will be without new guard Anfernee Simons indefinitely.
Imaging on Simons’ left wrist revealed that he aggravated a previous fracture in the team’s loss to the Detroit Pistons on Saturday. It’s unclear how long Simons will be sidelined.
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Simons left the Bulls’ 126-110 loss to the Pistons on Saturday due to what the team initially called a sprain, and he didn’t play in the second half. Then imaging revealed the fracture, which Donovan said stemmed from an old injury Simons 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 ahead of the trade deadline earlier this month in exchange for center Nikola Vučević. He has appeared in six games with the Bulls and is averaging 15.2 points and three assists since landing in Chicago.
Simons is in his eighth season in the league. The Portland Trail Blazers selected him with the No. 24 pick in 2018, and he spent his first seven seasons with Portland before being traded to Boston in a deal for Jrue Holiday last June.
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The Bulls entered Tuesday’s game against the Charlotte Hornets with a 24-34 record. They are on a nine-game losing streak and have lost 12 of their past 13 games. They sit 12th in the Eastern Conference with 23 games left in the regular season and are on pace to miss the playoffs for a fourth straight year.