While that’s no surprise, it’s not reassuring for Chicago and Lonzo Ball fans. On the sidelines of the Draft, Arturas Karnisovas, vice-president of the Bulls, slipped a simple sentence concerning the leader.
“We don’t expect him to return next season”he simply said for an ESPN reporter. We could therefore be heading for a second white season in a row, after that of 2022/2023…
Lonzo Ball has been absent from the courts since January 2022 after tearing the meniscus of his left knee. He was operated on twice in 2022, first in January and then in September. Despite this, he was not progressing and could not return to the field this season.
Last March, the former Lakers and Pelicans went to the pool for the third time, for an unprecedented intervention in the NBA: a cartilage transplant. An operation synonymous with ” rescue “explained to us Matthieu Ollivier from the Institute of Movement and Locomotor System (IML) in Marseille, one of the great French specialists in knee surgery.
“This operation can give quite impressive results. But it’s still random”he specified. “For a professional athlete, the possibilities of returning to a high level are 70/30 in my opinion. We make an easy promise of comfort of life with an operation like that. But not a performance promise. If this operation fails, the next sanction is the prosthesis. We remove the knee to put metal in its place. And there, the cases of professional players, regardless of the sport, with a knee prosthesis, I don’t know of any. »
| Lonzo-Ball | Percentage | Bounces | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Season | Crew | GM | Minimum | Shots | 3 points | LF | Off | Def | Early | pd | party | Int | bp | CT | Points |
| 2017-18 | ALL | 52 | 34 | 36.0 | 30.5 | 45.1 | 1.3 | 5.6 | 6.9 | 7.2 | 2.3 | 1.7 | 2.6 | 0.8 | 10.2 |
| 2018-19 | ALL | 47 | 30 | 40.6 | 32.9 | 41.7 | 1.2 | 4.2 | 5.3 | 5.4 | 2.4 | 1.5 | 2.2 | 0.4 | 9.9 |
| 2019-20 | NOP | 63 | 32 | 40.3 | 37.5 | 56.6 | 1.1 | 5.0 | 6.1 | 7.0 | 2.0 | 1.4 | 3.1 | 0.6 | 11.8 |
| 2020-21 | NOP | 55 | 32 | 41.4 | 37.8 | 78.1 | 0.6 | 4.2 | 4.8 | 5.8 | 1.9 | 1.5 | 2.2 | 0.6 | 14.6 |
| 2021-22 | CHI | 35 | 35 | 42.3 | 42.3 | 75.0 | 1.0 | 4.4 | 5.4 | 5.1 | 2.4 | 1.8 | 2.3 | 0.9 | 13.0 |
| Total | 252 | 33 | 40.0 | 36.4 | 57.8 | 1.0 | 4.7 | 5.7 | 6.2 | 2.2 | 1.6 | 2.5 | 0.6 | 11.9 | |
How to read the stats? MJ = matches played; Min = Minutes; Shots = Shots made / Shots attempted; 3pts = 3-points / 3-points attempted; LF = free throws made / free throws attempted; Off = offensive rebound; Def= defensive rebound; Tot = Total bounces; Pd = assists; Fte: Personal fouls; Int = Intercepts; Bp = Lost bullets; Ct: Counters; Points = Points.
