 Welcome back to run it back. It's been quite some time since we've seen Lonzo ball on a court and there's such mystery around his his health shams. Do you have the latest on him. Well it's not good. Lonzo ball has been shut down for the remainder of the NBA season. This guy that had two surgeries in twenty twenty two one in January of twenty twenty two for a torn meniscus. And then he had one right as training camp was beginning this past September. Both were supposed to help that that left knee that ailing left knee that he has. But both have not worked the pain and the discomfort has persisted in his knee. And I'm told right now the next step for Lonzo ball is figuring out strategies where he can try to recover and find a way to get out back on the on the floor. And if those if those options that he's looking at don't work. I think there definitely is some internal fear within the bulls. How much does this threaten his career long term. Will he be able to make it back after missing a year and a half without stepping foot on NBA court. You know you could end up missing two full calendar years. And so obviously Chandler's guy that has dealt with a lot. But Lonzo ball guys twenty two and thirteen the bulls were last year with him in the lineup. They're competing for being the top seed in the East. To me he's one of the best guards when you look around the league making teams better making teammates better. He made the bulls a lot better. And he personally elevated his game became a much better three point shooter. So it's unfortunate. Of course we all hope he figures it back out and gets back on the court. But Chandler your guy that's been through a lot throughout your whole career. We talk about needs and surgeries meniscus all this. What do you make of a guy that could end up missing two full calendar years of his career. When he's supposed to be in his prime. Yeah this is tough. And this hits me close to home because I went through the same exact thing where I just had a freak accident kind of spill where I kind of bang my knee on the ground. And I got an MRI and I had a dime sized piece of cartilage that chipped off the medial part of my knee. And I was basically called a control lesion where you know it was said to not get worse to just rest and strengthen the areas around it. Everything that Lonzo ball has been going through and you come back and I came back for the playoffs that year and I had landed again and sure enough blew out my knee got a different MRI and that dime sized cartilage went to a quarter sized cartilage. And that's when you start talking about micro fractured surgery which is what I had which is extremely hard to come come back from. And nowadays they have different they have different things. They have the regenic kind which is this Dr. Peter veiling which is where Kobe used to always go to Dusseldorf Germany and my guy Barron's Betos takes all these players over there still in the summer and it's kind of like a five day process where you do different injections. You train in the morning then you come back in the evening for another injection and it's all legal doesn't fail you on a drug test and just kind of gives you that temporary relief. The problem is you can't really go to Germany during the season and it wears off after like four to five months. Now they have different stuff. They have cartilage regeneration where it's a different doctor in Germany where they're actually regrowing cartilage in your knee. I believe this is really tried it and it didn't really have the outcome that he likes but and it's also it's another year rehab on top of that. So it's an intense process with not a lot of research done so far. So it's a tough spot because there's nothing you can do. You can fix an ACL you can fix fix a meniscus. You can't really row regrow cartilage back like that. And what happens is it's so jagged and they'll smooth it. It's a trickle effect. It's a trickle effect and from that I tore my left meniscus then I tore my right meniscus and it's kind of just a spiral effect of issues. So I feel for the kid because he is a great player and he's exactly what the bulls need. And he's one of these point guards that are the Jalen Brunson types that can run an offense that can shoot that can see the floor that can pass. But this is tough and I hate to hear this because even if he does go the cartilage regrowth process we're talking another year or two years that he's out. He's out of the league for three years. That's hard to come back from. So this is this is a sad case where I hope he can find relief. I hope he can because you can only do so much court of zone and PRP and all this temporary fixes for an issue like this. Which is what it seems like they've been doing since the mystery was so strong Eddie. We've known this guy for so long him and his family and we've watched so much of their lives. It's really easy to forget Lonzo Balls is 25 years old. He's only played five years in the NBA. And to say his career is already being threatened by an injury. That's just tough to hear. He was really coming into his own as a player. He spent a lot of time figuring out his shot form on an NBA level to be an NBA level shooter. He's been a great defender since he touched down into the league and it really found a role for him in the NBA. So hopefully he can get back to himself. But so much of his game was built on his athleticism on his ability to defend on his ability to shuffle on defense and his ability to get around defenders to create space to create shots for his teammates. So he's going to need that if he's going to come back as a less athletic version of what we had previously seen in Chicago and New Orleans. I don't know what that player looks like. So you know wishing him the best hope he can get back. But as Chandler mentioned there's a lot for him to figure out and this is the type of injury that just do rails your career in that way. Again just 25 years old super frustrated if you're a fan of him if his family of all of that we've seen of his entire come up to this player. So yeah hoping he gets back on the court and hoping he looks like his old self. Yeah. Go ahead. Sorry. The good news is he got paid. The good news is he got paid four years. I don't want to let's let's let's let's make sure that's that's out there. This would have been like a heartbreaking situation if he didn't get paid and he was figuring out a way to just get paid after this process. But thankfully he did get paid. So shout out to a lot of the boy. And that's a good point because this this is something that is not going to pass on the physical. So if he was going into a free agent year no way a team's given him a long lengthy eighty five million dollar deal with these type of injuries. So good good news is that he did get the bag and secured that and at least set himself up financially. So so he sits while he figures out what he can do next. But the Bulls are still they still made a move. Right Shoms. Yeah. So the Bulls are going to be adding Patrick Beverly a guy Chandler knows very well. They're signing him to a deal for the rest of the season. And they they looked in the rest of Westwood pretty hard. They thought they had a good shot at him. But after he ended up deciding to go to the Clippers the Bulls moved on pretty quickly to go get Pat Beverly. He's a guy that has not had the greatest statistical year this year. But when you think about culture you think about toughness you think about defense leadership. Those are all the qualities that you think of when when you have Patrick Beverly on your roster. And I do think being back in Chicago being in a situation where he can start he can lead a team. He can run a team. He's not really fighting for true minutes. You know as far as staying staying power at the point opposition in Chicago. I think that will give him a good chance to to like he said put on for a city. Look at him. He's already he's already talking Chandler. Does it move the needle at all for Chicago. I love him so much. No it doesn't move the needle. It's awesome. It's awesome. I do think he you know he is Chicago throughout. He is from the absolute hood right down the street. This is great for him. And he's with family and he's with his friends. It's a tall task though. You look at those 10 teams that are above them in the standings right now. I don't think Patrick Beverly really puts the needle here. I don't think Westbrook. I don't think whoever they could get myself as a huge trade at the deadline to kind of put them in a in a spot to succeed in the postseason. But I do love a story like this where a guy gets to go home and he's comfortable and he's familiar with everything. He's playing with a lot of talented guys playing for a great coach Billy Donovan. So I love it for him. Does it move the needle. I don't think so. So it's OK. So maybe it won't move the needle. But more importantly Eddie do you think the other guys the stars that are already on this team will embrace him. Will they be put off by him. What do you expect. Oh everybody loves Pat Bev when they play with them. That's the whole difference. You love to have that scrappy guy who's willing to do it all for you in the court. And who's willing to fight literally anybody. We've watched Pat Bev Decca center this year for a backup guy on his team. Like everybody loves to have that guy on their team. So yeah. Zach Levine. They're excited to have them there. Now are they going to be excited when he breaks another wide open three. I don't know. But they need some energy on that team. We've talked about them all year about how they just look frustrated in general. They just had a great report in December of just how bad the team felt. And you know they need this kind of pick me up. And they're one game out of the plan right now behind the Wizards. They can make a real run. And this is a team in November. We thought could really make some noise. So if they get healthy they make a run. Hey maybe they win a playoff game or two in the opening round. But they got to pass the Wizards first. And you know I don't know if Pat Bev helps on the court. Maybe he helps them around and gets them in the right place to for them to then handle it on the court themselves. It does feel like an injection of sass at the exact right moment. Like if you're trying to make a run to just get in barely definitely right now. Right. It feels like a good move like on their part no matter how. When this was when this was going on. I literally text Cuban. I was like go get Pat Bev like he would be perfect for like Luca like his little body guard. You know what I mean. I was like what. So I know why. Why didn't he. I don't know man. I thought he would have been perfect. That's probably why I'm not. He was a juice in the Dallas Maverick. Never thought I'd see the day. Try it so hard. No juice. Sounds like you do. It sounds like you do. Shams. Thank you. Go have a very fun rest of your Tuesday. Yes it is Tuesday. And we will talk to you in the morning. Guys you're sticking around because it's convinced me time. The all star dish.