{"id":377032,"date":"2025-12-30T02:36:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T02:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/377032\/"},"modified":"2025-12-30T02:36:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T02:36:08","slug":"bulls-center-zach-collins-out-with-big-toe-sprain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/377032\/","title":{"rendered":"Bulls center Zach Collins out with big toe sprain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chicago Bulls center Zach Collins will probably miss several games with a sprained right big toe, coach Billy Donovan said before Monday&#8217;s game against the&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>CHICAGO(AP) \u2014 Chicago Bulls center Zach Collins 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 6-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 center 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 <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/bucks-giannis-antetokounmpo-87bfbcb569cbe3128b87d09b7a08f127\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a loss to Milwaukee<\/a> on 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<p>AP NBA: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nba\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nba<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2025 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chicago Bulls center Zach Collins will probably miss several games with a sprained right big toe, coach Billy&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":377033,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[355,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-377032","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-nba","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=377032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377032\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/377033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}