Donovan had been flirting with the idea of teaming two bigs together on the floor for weeks, and now that Nikola Vucevic is healthy he teamed the veteran with Zach Collins on Saturday, as well as getting a look from the duo of Collins and Jalen Smith.

The Chicago Bulls have been without Lonzo Ball for the past seven games. The veteran playmaker is seadling with an injury to his right wrist. It’s the same wrist that hampered Ball’s start to the season,

Lonzo Ball stayed back in Chicago to get conditioning in. Wrist injury is not going well, but Billy Donovan said there is no indication that he will be shut down for the remainder of the season. - 6:40 PM KC Johnson: Lonzo Ball told teammates in postgame locker room Thursday night that he’d see them “on the second half of the trip.

Coach Billy Donovan said Ball stayed in Chicago with a member of the medical staff to keep his conditioning up, but the injury to his right wrist remains an issue.

The Chicago Bulls have had numerous opportunities to pull the plug on veteran players following the trade of Zach LaVine to the Sacramento Kings in February.

The Chicago Bulls have been a bit of a roller coaster as of late, winners of four straight games before Saturday evening’s narrow road loss to the Houston Rockets. Lonzo Ball has been out of the lineup since late February with a wrist injury,