{"id":669587,"date":"2026-05-14T03:37:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T03:37:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/669587\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T03:37:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T03:37:11","slug":"nba-basketball-news-2026-josh-giddey-has-right-ankle-surgery-for-chicago-bulls-australian-star-sidelined","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/669587\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA basketball news 2026, Josh Giddey has right ankle surgery for Chicago Bulls, Australian star sidelined"},"content":{"rendered":"

Australia’s Chicago Bulls<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n

The Bulls said he will be sidelined from basketball activities for three months.<\/p>\n

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 this past season \u2014 his lowest total since his 2021-22 rookie season with Oklahoma City.<\/p>\n

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Head coach Billy Donovan of the Chicago Bulls talks with Josh Giddey.\u00a0Getty<\/p>\n

The Aussie star is on a deal said to be worth $150 million with the NBA team.<\/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

Chicago hired Bryson Graham as executive vice president of basketball operations to replace the fired Arturas Karnisovas.<\/p>\n

The team is looking for a new coach after Billy Donovan opted to resign against ownership’s wishes and avoid a potentially awkward situation with the new front office.<\/p>\n

Chicago has nearly $82 million in salary cap space and two first-round draft picks, including the No.4 overall selection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Australia’s Chicago Bulls guard Josh Giddey underwent arthroscopic surgery on his right ankle and is expected to be…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":669588,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-669587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=669587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669587\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/669588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=669587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=669587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=669587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}