{"id":1163537,"date":"2026-02-23T00:35:31","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T05:35:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/?p=1163537"},"modified":"2026-02-23T00:35:31","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T05:35:31","slug":"bulls-guard-anfernee-simons-sidelined-and-needs-imaging-on-injured-left-wrist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/bulls-guard-anfernee-simons-sidelined-and-needs-imaging-on-injured-left-wrist\/","title":{"rendered":"Bulls guard Anfernee Simons sidelined and needs imaging on injured left wrist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CHICAGO (AP) \u2014 Chicago Bulls guard Anfernee Simons will have additional imaging on his injured left wrist on Monday and see a hand specialist, coach Billy Donovan said before Sunday&#8217;s game against the New York Knicks.<\/p>\n<p>Simons, acquired by Chicago in a deal that sent center Nikola Vucevic to Boston at the trade deadline earlier this month, was hurt in <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/pistons-bulls-score-beb9b9d63f294ace8f64ae69bb5565ee\">Chicago&#8217;s 126-110 loss<\/a> to Detroit on Saturday and didn&#8217;t play in the second half. <\/p>\n<p>The injury was listed as a left wrist sprain, but Donovan said the team wasn&#8217;t certain of the exact diagnosis or how long Simons might be out.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey (the Bulls medical staff) certainly want to see a hand doctor and we&#8217;ll do some pictures tomorrow, so I&#8217;ll have a better idea&#8221; Donovan said. &#8220;He&#8217;s out right now. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe&#8217;s still pretty sore from it, but the extent of it, I&#8217;m not sure yet.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In six games and five starts with the Bulls, Simons has averaged 15.2 points and 28.4 minutes. <\/p>\n<p>In 49 contests with the Celtics this season, the 26-year-old Simons averaged 14.2 points in 24.5 minutes. He was Portland&#8217;s first-round draft pick in 2018 and played the first seven of his eight NBA seasons with the Trail Blazers before being traded to Boston for Jrue Holiday in July.<\/p>\n<p>The Bulls entered Sunday on a season-worst eight-game losing streak.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP NBA: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/NBA\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/NBA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u200b<a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/articles\/bulls-guard-anfernee-simons-sidelined-003531692.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/articles\/bulls-guard-anfernee-simons-sidelined-003531692.html<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHICAGO (AP) \u2014 Chicago Bulls guard Anfernee Simons will have additional imaging on his injured left wrist on Monday and see a hand specialist, coach&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1163537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1163537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1163537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1163537\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1163537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1163537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1163537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}