[Lorenzi] Jaden Ivey reportedly told the Bulls’ head of player performance on March 25 that Jesus healed his knee and he was ready to play, He underwent an MRI the next day, and Chicago shut him down for the season.
After being traded from Detroit, Ivey played only four games with the Bulls, who sat him to allow him to rehab his surgically repaired left knee to build strength. He said the Bulls thought he was playing hurt, but he said it was how he had been playing all season with the Pistons.
Ivey said he rehabbed his knee for two weeks, but the Bulls pushed back his timetable. Then, in one practice with the team, he banged knees with forward Leonard Miller, and his left knee later swelled up before the swelling subsided.
“I said, ‘I’m ready. Jesus healed my knee,‘” Ivey said.
Ivey said he offered to fly himself to Philadelphia for the team’s March 25 game. Instead, he got an MRI, and the team shut him down for the season March 26.
Four days later, the Bulls waived him after his series of online diatribes.