Milwaukee – Dollars forward khris middleton Mike Budenholzer, coach, Mike Budenholzer said after the game that he sprained the medial collateral ligament in his left knee during the fourth quarter of the Milwaukee’s 114-110 loss to the Chicago Bulls on Wednesday.
Middleton is due to undergo an MRI on Thursday, which will determine the severity of the injury and give the team more information about his return schedule.
Middleton slipped a trip to the basket about midway through the fourth quarter in Game 2 of this first-round series, completing a pass to Brooke Lopez He also fell to the ground. Middleton immediately began favoring his left leg, trying to stretch and flexing his leg on the sidelines before heading to the locker room.
Middleton finished with 18 points, 8 assists and 5 rebounds in 33 minutes for the Bucks.
“You expect him to get up and get out and get back into the game, but you see he was limp and limp and limp and you think like, ‘Oh, I hope it isn’t bad, I hope it isn’t that bad,'” Star Bucks Giannis Antikonmo He said after the match. “We need this guy. When he asks for a replacement, you know it annoys him because he’s not leaving the game.”
Over the past two seasons, the value of the coins has been 86-34 (.717) when Antetokounmpo, Middleton and Jrue holiday They’re all on the ground together, including the playoffs. However, Milwaukee outperformed opponents by 7.8 points per 100 possessions when Antetokounmpo and Holiday played without Middleton on the floor.
“We have a job to do here,” said Antetokounmue, who finished the game with 33 points and 18 rebounds. “Khris is clearly one of the best players in the team, if he is not able to be with us it will be a huge loss for us.”
The Bucks have already lost another key member of their rotation, Bobby Portezearlier in Game 2. He was knocked out in the first quarter after being hit in the face with an elbow from a Bulls center Tristan Thompson While the two climbed up to bounce.
No foul was called, but Portis fell to the ground after contact and was bleeding near his right eye after the play. A report gathered with crew chief Ken Fitzgerald said officials did not see the elbow during the play.
Portis tried to warm up briefly after the break but only stayed on the field for a short while before heading back to the locker room. Soon after the third quarter began, the Bucks ruled him out for the rest of the game with right eye wear.
Portez scored two points and grabbed a rebound in six minutes.
“We expect him to be fine for some time and that he should be fine,” said Budenholzer.
The injury news wasn’t much better before the NBA champion’s second game. Budenholzer said during the preceding period of the media provide that veteran goalkeeper George Hill He wasn’t expected to return anytime soon from the abdominal strain that prevented him from playing the series.
“We don’t expect it in the short term,” Budenholzer said.
Budenholzer said the problem was unrelated to the neck injury that caused Hill to miss 17 games earlier in the season. Hill said after returning from that injury that he was dealing with a partial tear between the sixth and seventh thoracic vertebrae in his spine.
According to Budenholzer, the latest injury stems from something that happened at the Bucks game on April 8 in Detroit. Hill has not played since.
“We’ll see how it progresses over the next day, I’ll say a few days or more,” Budenholzer said.
Hill, 35, played 54 games during the regular season and averaged 6.2 points, 2.9 rebounds, 2.2 assists, and 23.2 minutes.
Jevon Carter Hill filled his place in the rotation with the Bucks winning 93-86 in the first game and scoring three points in 10 minutes. He contributed twice to the rebound in nine minutes Wednesday.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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