Lauri Markkanen highly unlikely to return before All-Star break
Lauri Markkanen Rumors
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Position: F-C
Born: 05/22/97
Height: 7-0 / 2.13
Weight:240 lbs. / 108.9 kg.
Salary: $6,731,508
Born: 05/22/97
Height: 7-0 / 2.13
Weight:240 lbs. / 108.9 kg.
Salary: $6,731,508
Sean Cunningham: Bulls will be without Lauri Markkanen, Otto Porter and Chandler Hutchison tonight when they host the Kings.
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Rob Schaefer: Otto Porter Jr. and Lauri Markkanen both still not doing anything on court, per Billy Donovan. Porter doing some strength/conditioning work. No return timeline. Markkanen still experiencing discomfort in shoulder. 2-4 week timeline was announced 9 days ago
According to coach Billy Donovan, his conversations with executive vice president of basketball operations Arturas Karnisovas have been about the current roster and the last player he spoke with about roster security was forward Lauri Markkanen. ‘‘The only conversation I had with anybody about that was Lauri when that extension [talk] kind of came and went [in December],’’ Donovan said Monday. ‘‘I was not so much talking to him about what had happened, but I just wanted to make sure he was in a good place to go out and play because we were just kind of right at the end of the preseason. I have not had any players come to me and talk to me about that.’’
