The Latest Breaking News from Lonzo Ball

CHICAGO — As Lonzo Ball undergoes his second procedure Wednesday to address a lingering meniscus injury, the source of the pain sidelining the Chicago Bulls point guard remains a mystery.

On Tuesday, Lonzo explained that his knee injury has affected his day-to-day life.

The point guard will have left knee surgery on Wednesday — his second one in less than a year — and insisted that he will take his return slowly. Could that cost him the 2022-23 season? Ball and the Bulls couldn’t rule that out.

The original injury timeline was 4-to-6 weeks. That was 8 months ago.

Artūras Karnišovas took a calculated risk in the summer when he decided the Chicago Bulls roster needed only a little tweaking.

Ball will have another surgery on his left knee Wednesday, and all the organization will say is he will be re-evaluated in four to six weeks. They hope they will have a clearer timetable at that time.

The middle Ball brother officially joins the NBA for the first time in his career.

The Chicago Bulls stayed quiet for most of the offseason, focusing on re-signing Zach LaVine and returning the core of last year’s roster to build into the 2022-23 season. But it was still a busy summer for Bulls players, who spent the time recovering from injury, expanding their families and…

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CHICAGO — Lonzo Ball will have left knee surgery next week and miss the start of the season as the Chicago Bulls continue to seek answers for their starting point guard’s lingering injury.

The left knee that sidelined Ball back in January and was supposed to be a quick return, will now put him on the shelf for the start of the 2022-23 season, with a re-evaluation coming in four-to-six weeks.