{"id":378706,"date":"2025-12-31T04:58:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T04:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/378706\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T04:58:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T04:58:11","slug":"report-bulls-josh-giddey-to-miss-multiple-weeks-due-to-hamstring-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/378706\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Bulls&#8217; Josh Giddey to miss multiple weeks due to hamstring injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <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=\"noopener nofollow\">Chicago Bulls<\/a> backcourt won&#8217;t look the same for the foreseeable future.<\/p>\n<p>The 23-year-old suffered the injury in a loss to the Minnesota Timberwolves on Monday, exiting the game after just under 18 minutes of action.<\/p>\n<p>Giddey is in the midst of a breakout campaign, averaging career-bests across the board with 19.2 points, 8.9 rebounds and 9.0 assists (third in the NBA) on 46.6\/38.6\/76.1 per cent shooting splits.<\/p>\n<p>The Aussie, taken sixth overall in 2021, has been making good on the Bulls&#8217; faith in him \u2014 not only trading for Giddey in 2024, but also re-signing him to a four-year, $100 million deal last off-season.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Giddey&#8217;s backcourt mate Coby White (right-calf tightness) is also dealing with an injury as both guards have already been ruled out for Wednesday&#8217;s contest against the New Orleans Pelicans. White&#8217;s injury also occurred on Monday against the Timberwolves.<\/p>\n<p>Chicago will enter its New Year&#8217;s Eve matchup with a 15-17 record, good for ninth in the Eastern Conference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Chicago Bulls backcourt won&#8217;t look the same for the foreseeable future. The 23-year-old suffered the injury in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":131955,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-378706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378706","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=378706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378706\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}