{"id":323874,"date":"2025-12-04T01:41:23","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T01:41:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/323874\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T01:41:23","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T01:41:23","slug":"bulls-noa-essengue-to-have-season-ending-shoulder-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/323874\/","title":{"rendered":"Bulls&#8217; Noa Essengue to have season-ending shoulder surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CHICAGO &#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/chi\/chicago-bulls\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bulls<\/a> rookie forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/5242496\/noa-essengue\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Noa Essengue<\/a>, the 12th pick in this year&#8217;s NBA draft, will have surgery on his left shoulder and miss the remainder of the season, coach Billy Donovan said Wednesday night before a game against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/bkn\/brooklyn-nets\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brooklyn<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The 18-year-old Essengue, from France, made his debut Nov. 22 against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/wsh\/washington-wizards\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Washington<\/a> and appeared in two games for Chicago. He totaled just over six minutes, going 0 for 3 from the floor. In four games with the G-League Windy City Bulls, Essengue averaged 23 points, 8.5 rebounds and 30.8 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think the recommendation was to get it fixed now instead of waiting, because it&#8217;s something that could continue to be a problem for him,&#8221; Donovan said. &#8220;The decision was made pretty much sometime today.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Bulls also are missing forwards <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/4066372\/kevin-huerter\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kevin Huerter<\/a> (left hamstring strain), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/4066650\/zach-collins\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Zach Collins<\/a> (left scaphoid fracture) and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/4397189\/jalen-smith\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jalen Smith<\/a> (left hamstring strain), as well as guards <a data-player-guid=\"750f545c-3cc8-fea4-91cd-828da373cc8e\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/4395651\/coby-white\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Coby White<\/a> (left calf strain), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/4432822\/isaac-okoro\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Isaac Okoro<\/a> (left leg, pinched nerve) and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/4395626\/tre-jones\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tre Jones<\/a> (left ankle sprain).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHICAGO &#8212; Bulls rookie forward Noa Essengue, the 12th pick in this year&#8217;s NBA draft, will have surgery&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":323875,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-323874","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=323874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323874\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/323875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}