{"id":376410,"date":"2025-12-30T03:00:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T03:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/376410\/"},"modified":"2025-12-30T03:00:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T03:00:08","slug":"bulls-centre-zach-collins-out-with-big-toe-sprain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/376410\/","title":{"rendered":"Bulls centre Zach Collins out with big toe sprain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CHICAGO \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/chicago-bulls\/\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-team=\"chicago-bulls\" data-league=\"nba\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Chicago Bulls<\/a> centre <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/basketball\/nba\/players\/zach-collins\/b5310b38-a378-464f-b344-928adee0ed00\" class=\"sn-player-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-player=\"b5310b38-a378-464f-b344-928adee0ed00\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Zach Collins<\/a> will probably miss several games with a sprained right big toe, coach Billy Donovan said before Monday&#8217;s game against the Minnesota Timberwolves.<\/p>\n<p>The six-foot-11 Collins sat out the first 21 games of the season with a fractured bone (scaphoid) in his left wrist, but has come on strong off the bench in 10 games since returning.<\/p>\n<p>He is averaging 9.7 points and 5.6 rebounds per game and scored in double figures in six straight.<\/p>\n<p>Starting centre Nikola Vucevic and Collins are listed as the tallest Bulls players. They&#8217;ve given Chicago a double-big lineup, helping the team win five straight and climb back to .500 before\u00a0a loss to Milwaukee\u00a0on Saturday dropped them to 15-16.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cObviously coming out of the wrist injury break, him coming back, I think he made a pretty significant impact that allowed us to play big,\u201d Donovan said. \u201cJust his physicality, his rebounding, some of the things he did screen-wise really helped us.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHICAGO \u2014 Chicago Bulls centre Zach Collins will probably miss several games with a sprained right big toe,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":376411,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-376410","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\/376410","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=376410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376410\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/376411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}