{"id":703665,"date":"2026-04-07T16:44:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T16:44:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/703665\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T16:44:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T16:44:17","slug":"josh-giddey-matas-buzelis-headline-bulls-injury-report-vs-wizards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/703665\/","title":{"rendered":"Josh Giddey, Matas Buzelis headline Bulls injury report vs. Wizards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a target=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/nba\/chicago-bulls\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Chicago Bulls<\/a> are on the road on Tuesday night as they travel to take on the <a target=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/nba\/washington-wizards\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Washington Wizards<\/a> in an Eastern Conference matchup.<\/p>\n<p>For the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/nba\/chicago-bulls\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bulls<\/a>, they enter Tuesday\u2019s game with a 29-49 record after losing at home to the <a target=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/nba\/phoenix-suns\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Phoenix Suns<\/a> on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Now Chicago will try to bounce back on the road on Tuesday as they face off against a struggling <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/nba\/washington-wizards\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wizards<\/a> team.<\/p>\n<p>While the Bulls are trying to pick up a victory in Tuesday night\u2019s matchup, they may be without multiple key players due to injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Bulls rule out Josh Giddey, Matas Buzelis for Wizards game<\/p>\n<p>For the Bulls, they have <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/KCJHoop\/status\/2041255607928537418\" rel=\"nofollow\">nine players listed on their injury report<\/a>, including both Josh Giddey and Matas Buzelis<\/p>\n<p>Chicago has ruled out Giddey due to left hamstring strain injury management as he will miss his second consecutive contest.<\/p>\n<p>With Giddey sidelined once again, Tre Jones and Collin Sexton, who has been listed as probable and is expected to play despite dealing with a right finger injury, could both be in line for increased roles against the Wizards.<\/p>\n<p>More:\u00a0<a target=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/nba\/los-angeles-lakers\/news\/lebron-james-playing-tonight-vs-thunder-game-status-lakers-star\/68ea5555eb072ae4a2fa93f2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Is LeBron James playing tonight vs. Thunder? Game status for Lakers star<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Bulls have also ruled out Buzelis due to an illness as he will also miss his second straight game.<\/p>\n<p>Leonard Miller and Patrick Williams could both have larger roles for the Bulls on Tuesday night with Buzelis sidelined once again.<\/p>\n<p>Anfernee Simons has also been ruled out due to a fractured left wrist while Nick Richards remains sidelined while recovering from a right elbow sprain.<\/p>\n<p>Zach Collins, Noa Essengue and Jalen Smith have also been ruled out as they are all set to miss the remainder of the season.<\/p>\n<p>Lachlan Olbrich has been listed as probable and he is expected to play despite dealing with a foot injury.<\/p>\n<p>Fans can catch Tuesday night\u2019s matchup between the Bulls and Wizards from Capital One Arena at 8:00 p.m. ET.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Chicago Bulls are on the road on Tuesday night as they travel to take on the Washington&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":390807,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3780],"tags":[7,6,682,468,3892,683],"class_list":{"0":"post-703665","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-washington-wizards","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-nba","10":"tag-washington","11":"tag-washington-wizards","12":"tag-washingtonwizards","13":"tag-wizards"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116364434812244290","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=703665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703665\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/390807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=703665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=703665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=703665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}