Chicago Bulls former MVP Derrick Rose can’t win for losing. After missing over 200 of the last 313 NBA games over the past 4 seasons, Derrick Rose completed the 2014-15 season healthy and all seemed to be well heading into the 2015-16 season until yesterday. During the first day of Chicago Bulls training camp yesterday, Rose was hit the face with an elbow suffering a orbital fracture and he will under go surgery.
According to ESPN,
Bulls guard Derrick Rose suffered a left orbital fracture during Tuesday’s practice and will undergo surgery Wednesday, the team announced.
A timetable for his return will not be known until after the surgery, the Bulls said. They will provide an update at that time.
The fracture to his eye socket is the latest in a long line of health issues for the 2010-11 MVP. He tore the ACL in his left knee in April 2012 and missed the 2012-13 season. He then tore the medial meniscus in his right knee in November 2013 and missed the rest of the 2013-14 season.
Rose also had a meniscectomy on his right knee in February and missed 31 regular-season games during the 2014-15 season (including for illness and rest). In total, Rose has played in just 100 regular-season games since the beginning of the lockout-shortened 2011-12 season.
Rose sustained his latest injury when he took an elbow to the face, and he left early from Tuesday’s practice, the first of training camp. However, his teammates and first-year coach Fred Hoiberg didn’t seem overly concerned immediately after practice.
“He got a little elbow,” Bulls power forward Taj Gibson said. “We don’t know the [severity] of it, but hopefully he’ll be fine. I know he’s tough. But it was one of those plays, especially in practice, where everybody’s going hard. It’s just tough.”
Gibson hinted that he might have been the one who delivered the elbow.
“I don’t know,” Gibson said. “It might have been me, but it’s just one of those plays where everybody’s going so hard and it’s real physical out there, so hopefully he’ll be OK.”
Rose could miss anywhere from 5 days to few months, its timetable is uncertain. Stay tuned to HHS1987 for all your sports news.
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