Yup.. another L for farvefan

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Even if you believe in him as a player, it would be tough to overlook the fact that he misses about half the season every season.

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Uh-oh



https://chicago.suntimes.com/bulls/2022 ... -off-table

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I used to shit on guys for not playing through injury but basketball you really can't. Not in today's league where everyone is so damn good and you need to play out of your mind just to compete. Even small injuries can mean you're a terrible player compared to a terrible players that's healthy.

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I hate to say it but this is looking like it may be one of the worst signings in modern Chicago sports history. (& I was in favor of it)

ORLANDO, Fla. — The Chicago Bulls are creeping closer to shutting down point guard Lonzo Ball for a second straight season.

Ball hasn’t played since Jan. 14, 2022, when he suffered a small tear in the MCL in his right knee. That has spiraled into an increasingly confounding injury requiring two surgical procedures and continuing to cause him pain.
Although the Bulls haven’t set a firm cutoff date for Ball to return this season, they are facing a rapidly shortening runway. If Ball can’t make a drastic improvement in the next three weeks before the All-Star break, coach Billy Donovan said the Bulls likely will sit down for a formal discussion on Ball’s season — and his future.

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I agree this is a disaster but I think it's more misfortune than it is mismanagement, no? I don't remember Ball having an injury history and if he didn't maybe this is just all bad luck. I'll basically delete this post if he had an injury history/risk at the time and the Bulls signed him anyway.

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I think it was Ball's own handpicked doctors that performed the first surgery also. I believe that i read that somewhere.

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This post was made nearly a year ago to the day.

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How do you fuck up a meniscus scope? It's basic. Me and you could it in a pinch.

If you were worried about his injury history/risk at the time of the signing then good call. I had no idea.

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Successful calls:

Kyrie Irving will never win anything as a team's alpha: check
T.rubisky is a bust: check
Ben Simmons is a liability: check
The Fields Cult is dumb: double check

2013 CSFMB ROY

^^^THIS plus a smallish mcl tear gets played on all the time. It just doesn’t hurt that much.

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Can't believe this would happen to the team that almost killed Luol Deng with a spinal tap.

Very farvefanesque

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Fox is still trash. Ball will come back next year and 'Ball out with a contract on the line. The Bulls should trade him at the deadline then

Hey 312 last year CB gave us this.


The hits just keep getting better and better for you CB

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Brunson, another "looter in a riot", you aspire to teach CRT one day so you should know what that is

That's quite the "Stretch" Hawk Harrelson!

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Lavine deal will be worse than the Ball deal before its over.

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Disagree with that. They can trade Lavine. You can't do anything with Ball except eat the money.

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Yeah..he's soft. He conveniently got injured before he could be traded several times.

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Nah, not even close

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I agree. It was easy to see he wasn't a guy you pay.

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Be well

GO BEARS!!!

how these players can't find competent doctors is shocking to me. and i have a hollistic aunt that knows how to fix a muscle tear "within a few days"

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Yep. There is a lot of confidence and respect for a dude that never has proven shit in the NBA. The mere fact that Caller Bob is a huge fan is reason enough to know that Ball isn't shit.
There is a ton of chatter going around with the online witch doctors that Ball may never play again. Based mostly on a Cowley report that claims that Ball has had 6 doctors look at the knee and not a one can diagnose exactly what the source of the pain happens to be.
From that they are concluding that Ball has a degenerative knee and is hence done. I'm starting to think that as well.

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No matter how bad Lavine's deal happens to be, it is impossible for it to ever be worse than a dude that isn't even playing. And with a better coach Lavine could still be an All Star level player. Just not Max. That Ball deal is killing the franchise currently.

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I believe you. I also think that Ball doesn't want to play basketball. I never believed that he was ever fully vested in being a basketball player. Too much "Big Baller Brand" from the very beginning and not enough hooper for me.

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Then he needs to play tomorrow. I'm pretty sure when they're ALL 50, getting out of bed is like unfolding a rusty lawn chair. They can still go to meetings.

I understand your point, but Ball is tying up 15% of our cap space, and was signed to be a complimentary player. Lavine takes up 30% of our cap and he's supposed to be a superstar player. He's not even an all star.

DeRozan is the best player on the team, and he's been consistently great since he arrived. He plays a style of basketball that should age well. Dump Lavine and build around Demar. Lavine can't handle being Robin.

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GO BEARS!!!

You want to build around a 34 year old dude?

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Lavine is the same guy he's always been, the bulls just overpaid him.

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