{"id":733540,"date":"2026-05-13T20:06:28","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T20:06:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/733540\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T20:06:28","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T20:06:28","slug":"josh-giddey-chicago-bulls-guard-has-surgery-on-his-right-ankle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/733540\/","title":{"rendered":"Josh Giddey: Chicago Bulls guard has surgery on his right ankle"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chicago Bulls guard Josh Giddey<\/a> underwent arthroscopic surgery on his right ankle and is expected to be ready for the start of training camp, the team announced Wednesday.<\/p>\n

The Bulls said he will be sidelined from basketball activities for three months. Giddey averaged career-highs in scoring (17 points), assists (9.1) and rebounds (8.3), though hamstring and right ankle injuries limited him to 54 games \u2014 his lowest total since his 2021-22 rookie season with the Oklahoma City Thunder.<\/p>\n

The Bulls finished 12th in the Eastern Conference at 31-51 while missing the playoffs for the fourth straight year. But they will have a different look next season.<\/p>\n

The Bulls hired Bryson Graham<\/a> as executive vice president of basketball operations to replace the fired Art\u016bras Karni\u0161ovas<\/a>. The team is looking for a new coach after Billy Donovan opted to resign<\/a> against ownership\u2019s wishes and avoid a potentially awkward situation with the new front office.<\/p>\n

The Bulls have nearly $60 million in salary-cap space and two first-round draft picks, including the No. 4 selection<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chicago Bulls guard Josh Giddey underwent arthroscopic surgery on his right ankle and is expected to be ready…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":733541,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3771],"tags":[7,920,919,329,27289,3824,965,90906,32101,90905,6],"class_list":["post-733540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-chicago-bulls","tag-basketball","tag-bulls","tag-chicago","tag-chicago-bulls","tag-chicago-bulls-roster","tag-chicagobulls","tag-josh-giddey","tag-josh-giddey-ankle-surgery","tag-josh-giddey-contract","tag-josh-giddey-surgery","tag-nba"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116569072219369347","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733540","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=733540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733540\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/733541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=733540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=733540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=733540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}