Derrick Jones Jr. has missed the Bulls’ last 17 games, but hopes to boost the bench with an early return from a fractured right index finger.
"The biggest thing was, for the first couple weeks, was letting the finger calm down and the discomfort calm down," Donovan told reporters."We got it to that place, and then the next thing was, could he get out there and do some contact. We've obviously been limited with practices, so trying to create some situations for him after shootarounds, even days we've had off where he can come in and do some things where there is some contact.
"He has some discomfort there, I'm not gonna say he feels 100 percent. He doesn't. But the doctors have always felt very comfortable that he could come back. The healing process is gonna be six-to-eight weeks, but him playing was really going to be on how much discomfort he had to deal with and whether or not he could play with that discomfort. I think as he's gone through a few days here, he's felt like it's tolerable.
Donovan took a wait-and-see approach to firm expectations for the bouncy, sixth-year forward, but he no doubt boosts a bench unit ailing in the wake of long-term injuries to
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