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Bulls will now be without guard Coby White to start the regular season

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Coby White bet on himself for the 2025-26 season.

On Monday, the first roll of the dice for the Bulls guard came up snake eyes.

After being cleared for full-contact practice over the weekend and coming out of it with a “he looked good” by the organization, the team announced that White would in fact not be ready for the start of the season and would be re-evaluated in two weeks.

“It wasn’t a setback,” coach Billy Donovan explained of the Monday news. “He went through the majority (of the Saturday practice), but I think coming out of that practice he felt tightness again back there.