Troy Brown Jr. out of the health and safety protocol for the Bulls
This continues to be an ever-moving news cycle for the Chicago Bulls as it pertains to players that are entering and leaving the league’s health and safety protocol due to a recent team and NBA-wide breakout of COVID-19 cases. The Bulls look to have lost one player to the health and safety protocol on Dec. 21 and got one back from it.
And the one player that the Bulls got back on Dec. 21 is the 22-year-old shooting guard/small forward Troy Brown Jr. The news that the Bulls are getting Brown back from the health and safety protocol came courtesy of a report from ESPN NBA insider Adrian Wojnarowski on Twitter on the afternoon of Dec. 21.
This should help as the Bulls also lost the likes of the second-year point guard Devon Dotson to the health and safety protocol on the same day. Dotson looked got in limited minutes for the Bulls in the last few games as more and more players were missing due to the same reason he will now be out for the team.
Chicago Bulls reportedly getting Troy Brown Jr. back from the health and safety protocol
Chicago Bulls forward Troy Brown is out of Covid protocols and returning to the team, source tells ESPN.
— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) December 21, 2021
Not only did the Bulls figure out about Dotson entering the health and safety protocol, and getting Brown out of it on Dec. 21, they also signed two more players on 10-day contracts via the hardship exemption. The Bulls added the likes of veteran power forward Ersan Ilyasova and guard Mac McClung out of free agency via 10-day contracts through the hardship exemption on this day.
Two other bits of injury/roster movement news that have also come up in the last 24 hours concern point guard Alex Caruso and forward Derrick Jones Jr. The Bulls could be without these two as they take an also shorthanded Toronto Raptors team at home on the night of Dec. 22.
That will be the final game for the Bulls ahead of the Christmas break. After facing the Raptors on Dec. 22, the Bulls don’t have another game until Dec. 26, when they take on the division foe Indiana Pacers at home.
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What the Bulls are getting back with Brown now in the rotation is a wing who is averaging around four points per game, three rebounds, and one assist, while shooting 41 percent from the field and 27 percent from beyond the arc. Brown is likely to continue to see an uptick in his minutes off the bench as the Bulls continue to have players missing in the health and safety protocol and due to other injury issues.