It initially seemed as if Alex Caruso escaped Friday’s loss to the Bucks without a serious injury after Grayson Allen’s dirty play resulted in the Bulls guard taking a hard fall in the third quarter. But Saturday brought terrible news, with the Bulls announcing Caruso will undergo surgery to fix a fractured right wrist. The guard will be reevaluated in 6-8 weeks, putting him on a similar timetable as Lonzo Ball. This is now the second time this season (Patrick Williams) a Bulls player has been injured badly by a flagrant foul.
This injury coming right on the heels of the Ball injury is a killer blow to a Bulls defense that slumped badly when Caruso missed a month, with Lonzo also missing some time during that stretch.