On Wednesday, our 1-9 Chicago Bulls just dropped their eighth straight game, a depressing second-half disaster against the San Antonio Spurs. After the Bulls built up as much as a 22-point edge, MVP candidate Victor Wembanyama powered San Antonio to a 27-point swing to finish with a modest 124-119 United Center victory.
Despite being a closer defeat than expected, the game itself may wind up an afterthought. That’s because rookie phenom Caleb Wilson hurt his hand while helping Jalen Smith guard Wembanyama into the third frame and was quickly ruled out for the rest of the night.
This is the play @CHSN_Bulls broadcast identified as where Caleb Wilson suffered the hand injury. pic.twitter.com/rnQLCNt049
— Ross Pins (@chisportsross) November 12, 2026The 20-year-old forward finished the game with 15 points in 15 minutes, on 5-of-7 field goal shooting.
Would Chicago have somehow upset the reigning Western Conference champs? Probably not, but the team’s path to even beating anybody over the next few weeks could get even harder, should its best player miss extended time.
Then-Miami Heat guard Pete Myers in action during the 1995 season.Bulls Bullets — November 12, 2026
According to Roundtable’s Gavin Dorsey, head coach Tiago Splitter suggested that Bulls medical staffers would have a better sense of the extent of Wilson’s hand injury on Thursday. Wilson has pretty instantly established himself as, by far, Chicago’s best player. Bulls devotees had been circling a Brooklyn Nets encounter as the first winnable game for the team in nearly a month. But if Wilson isn’t healthy for that encounter, this club may just have no shot against anyone until he returns. Despite starting Isaac Okoro for the second game and submitting probably their best half of basketball all season while claiming a 70-56 lead over the Spurs, our Bulls obviously couldn’t sustain anything. Eagle-eyed fans can probably guess two of the biggest culprits behind Chicago’s eyesore of a second half. Point guard Josh Giddey and forward Matas Buzelis have looked shockingly subpar through the Bulls’ first 10 games. Swish Theory’s Ross Pins — who always does a great job of finding critical emblematic game tape — captured some of Giddey’s sloppiness on either side of the hardwood. Giddey finished with nine points on 4-of-9 shooting from the floor (1-of-3 from deep), three assists, two rebounds, and a -19 plus-minus.Josh Giddey getting cooked on both ends, got taken out of the game after this stretch pic.twitter.com/vHLIs3j1FQ
— Ross Pins (@chisportsross) November 12, 2026 We all expected Buzelis to thrive next to Wilson this season. Instead, he’s regressed, while often seeming unsure of where he’s supposed to go in Tiago Splitter’s free-flowing offense. Buzelis chipped in just 13 points on 5-of-12 shooting from the field, three rebounds, two assists, and -21. One weird silver lining that could emerge from any kind of protracted Wilson absence could be Chicago putting the ball in Buzelis’ hands a bit more frequently. Speaking with reporters after the game (as captured by CHGO Bulls’ Will Gottlieb), Buzelis called himself out for his own shortcomings.Matas was frustrated with himself after the loss:"Weak with the ball. Mainly me. That's unacceptable, man. That was our game to win. I feel like I lost that game for us." pic.twitter.com/s5lwPGr9M2
— Will Gottlieb (@WillGottlieb) November 12, 2026 There are two big stats that aptly tell the story of Giddey and Buzelis’ nights. Neither player got to the free throw line even a single time, likely deterred from the paint by a certain reigning Defensive Player of the Year. Caleb Wilson, who again was only healthy for 15 minutes, notched three free throw attempts — the most for a Chicago starter. Giddey and Buzelis also contributed to a pathetic 13 of the Bulls’ 19 turnovers. The Spurs as a team turned the ball over six times, a tally both Giddey and Buzelis hit (Giddey had seven). Sports Illustrated alum Jeff Pearlman, who has a great new series dubbed Press Box Chronicles with Jeff Pearlman, looks back at the man Phil Jackson subbed in to replace Michael Jordan as Chicago’s starting two-guard for the 1993-94 season: journeyman vet Pete Myers. Given a salary cap exception following Jordan’s first of his three retirements in the offseason, Pearlman notes that the Bulls could have opted to sign a talented free agent like Byron Scott or former James H. Bowen High School star Ron Anderson — or perhaps they could have traded for Derek Harper. Instead, general manager Jerry Krause took a flier on Myers, whom he had initially picked in the sixth round (!) of the 1986 NBA Draft. Although he impressed then-Chicago head coach Doug Collins and a young MJ in training camp practices, Myers played sparingly as a rookie. Chicago cut him prior to the start of the 1987-88 season. He then hopped around between the NBA and various other pro leagues. By 1993, Myers had been out of the league for three years. During his second stint with the Bulls, Myers emerged as a strong, quick point-of-attack defender. While playing all 82 regular season games for Chicago (81 starts), Myers averaged career highs of 7.9 points (45.5 percent shooting and 70.1 percent free throw shooting) and 1.0 steals, plus 3.0 assists and 2.2 rebounds, across a career-best 24.8 minutes a night. Meanwhile, Scottie Pippen blossomed into a legitimate MVP candidate. Horace Grant and B.J. Armstrong made their only All-Star teams. A rookie Toni Kukoč made an instant impact piece. New additions Steve Kerr and Bill Wennington also made big bench contributions. Krause also flipped reserve big Stacey King for eventual new starting center Luc Longley, although at the time he was backing up Bill Cartwright during the latter’s final Bulls season. Chicago finished with a stellar 55 wins and pushed the Finals-bound New York Knicks to seven games in the semis. One could argue the Bulls were just one nonsense Hue Hollins foul call away from possibly advancing. Still, Myers had effectively revived his NBA career. By 1994-95, Ron Harper quickly supplanted Myers as Chicago’s then-starting shooting guard (Armstrong was still on the team then). Michael Jordan’s March return helped further reduce Myers’ role, and he departed in free agency. He fell out of the league for good after being waived by the Knicks midway through the 1997-98 season. He retired from basketball after two CBA stints. Myers was later brought back by the Bulls as an assistant coach in 2003, and he stayed with the Bulls across multiple regimes until the Tom Thibodeau era kicked off in 2010. After a stint on Mark Jackson’s pre-Steve Kerr Golden State Warriors, Myers rejoined Chicago from 2015-19.BULLS ON BLEACHER NATION: Go Ad Free | Subscribe to the BN Newsletter
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