Zach Collins gets an updated timeline after surgery
The Chicago Bulls enter the 2025-26 NBA season as team hoping to finally have some direction after a few years of not being good enough to be anything more than a playoff team, but not bad enough to start a rebuild with a high enough draft pick. But as they begin the season, the Bulls will be out a bit with a wrist injury Zach Collins.
Zach Collins underwent surgery for a wrist injury and he is expected to be on the sidelines for at least four weeks, which would put him behind the Bulls’ season opener, per Michael Scott of Hoopshipe.com. The injury involved Collins’ left wrist and is being called a non-displaced fracture. The Bulls are scheduled to open the regular season on Wednesday, October 22 at home against the Detroit Pistons.
Collins was entering his first full season with the Bulls after being acquired at last season’s trade deadline. He was part of a trio trade that brought De’Aaron Fox to the San Antonio Spurs and Zach LaVine ends up with the Sacramento Kings.
The No. 10 overall pick in the 2017 NBA Draft, Collins spent the first three seasons of his career with the Portland Trail Blazers. Collins signed with the Spurs as a free agent ahead of the 2021-22 season, and actually signed an extension with the team before being traded to the Bulls. He is in the final year of his contract and will hit unrestricted free agency in the offseason.
After the trade, Collins appeared in 28 games for the Bulls, including eight starts, logging just over 19 minutes per game. He averaged 8.6 points, 6.7 rebounds and 2.1 assists while shooting 54.1 percent from the field, 30 percent from the three-point line and 88.4 percent from the free throw line.
Last season, the Bulls failed to make the playoffs for the fourth straight year after losing in the playoffs to the Miami Heat.
David Iapkowitz is a basketball reporter for ClutchPoints, covering men’s and women’s NBA, WNBA and NCAA basketball news. The Los Angeles native has op-eds with Basketball Insiders, SB Nation and The Next Hoops.
2025-10-18 19:45:00
