{"id":796626,"date":"2026-05-14T20:44:57","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T20:44:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/796626\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T20:44:57","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T20:44:57","slug":"chicago-bulls-guard-josh-giddey-has-surgery-on-his-right-ankle-expected-to-be-ready-for-camp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/796626\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago Bulls guard Josh Giddey has surgery on his right ankle, expected to be ready for camp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Associated Press May 14, 2026 12:02 pm<\/p>\n<p>Chicago, IL (<a href=\"http:\/\/apnews.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">AP<\/a>) \u2013 Chicago Bulls guard Josh Giddey underwent arthroscopic surgery on his right ankle and is expected to be ready for the start of training camp, the team announced on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The Bulls said he will be sidelined from basketball activities for three months. 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 \u2014 his lowest total since his 2021-22 rookie season with Oklahoma City.<\/p>\n<p>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<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/chicago-bulls-bryson-graham-5177ca0473386d3ee49737e5e633bd03\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chicago hired Bryson Graham<\/a>\u00a0as executive vice president of basketball operations to replace the fired Arturas Karnisovas. The team is looking for a new coach after Billy Donovan opted to resign against ownership\u2019s wishes and avoid a potentially awkward situation with the new front office.<\/p>\n<p>Chicago has nearly $60 million in salary-cap space and two first-round draft picks, including the No. 4 overall selection.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP NBA:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/NBA\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/NBA<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Associated Press May 14, 2026 12:02 pm Chicago, IL (AP) \u2013 Chicago Bulls guard Josh Giddey underwent&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":796627,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[1260,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-796626","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-nba","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116574887972726634","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=796626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796626\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/796627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=796626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=796626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=796626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}