Remember a couple seasons ago when everyone was on Joakim Noah's nuts?

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NormanConnors said:
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Deng didn’t like how the front office tried to build its case against Thibodeau by correlating injuries to minutes played.

Deng led the NBA in minutes under Thibodeau and insisted that players striving for greatness welcome the workload.

“What I always say is, we had injuries before Tom came,” Deng said. “It’s not something that all of a sudden happened. It’s not like Thibs came in and our injury chart went up. I never complained about playing heavy minutes here. I always loved it. It was my best basketball. It’s when Chicago got to really realize who I am, and I thank Thibs for giving me that.

“I think if you ask any good player, if a player is complaining about too many minutes, you have to be mature enough to go to the office and talk to the coach and tell him you want less minutes. If a player does that, as a coach, I would listen and play him less minutes. But every player wants to play in this league. If they don’t, then they need to question what they’re about.”
Deng still believes Bulls' front office did Thibodeau wrong​
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This is from 2009 (when Thibs was still the assistant in Boston), where the Bulls medical staff cleared him to play when he had a stress fracture in his leg; he actually sought an outside opinion who advised him not to play.
Monday is an important day for the Bulls, for reasons that have nothing to do with their playoff-push matchup against the Miami Heat.

Sources said Luol Deng will consult with an orthopedic surgeon in Miami who has extensive experience in treating tibial stress fractures to detail the fifth-year forward's options.

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The Bulls have supported Deng's efforts to seek outside opinions. Sources said Bulls physician Brian Cole has talked by phone with Deng's doctor, a radiologist specializing in athletes' injuries for more than 15 years who works with all pro teams in Miami as well as the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

"What I'm worried about is playing on it and having it become a bigger fracture," Deng said. "I want to know I can't make it any worse. It hurts when I put weight on it. If I have no pain, I would play."

Deng had had mild pain in his right shin for more than three weeks when he jumped for a rebound Feb. 28 against Houston and felt a sharp, stabbing pain. X-rays taken at halftime raised concern among Bulls doctors that Deng had a stress fracture in his right tibia, and he sat for the second half.

On March 1, Bulls physicians read an MRI exam on the injury as negative. Two days later, Deng tested the injury at the morning shootaround in Charlotte. He felt OK until pregame warm-ups, when the sharp pain returned whenever he jumped and landed.

Shortly before tipoff, sources said, Deng received word from the Miami-based radiologist that test results showed a small fracture and advised Deng to not play.

The next day, the Bulls performed a CT scan and a follow-up MRI on Deng's leg and released a statement that called it "an early anterior tibial stress fracture."

The statement said: "All of the information to date points to some mild inflammation along his tibia, with a small irregularity within the cortical bone, with no obvious break in the inner or outer layer of bone.

"He has been restricted from high-level activity since [Feb. 28]. At this point, he will undergo 'active rest,' meaning that he will be encouraged to challenge himself physically, and if symptoms remain minimal he will be allowed an expeditious return to play."

Deng has been running on a "weightless" treadmill designed to eliminate stress from bones and joints and undergoing daily icing and electrical stimulation treatments. On Monday, some answers could take shape.
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Then there's the whole issue with the Bulls medical staff mishandling Deng's 'spinal tap' situation - Luol Deng’s agent (and Deng) frustrated with Bulls medical staff
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Thibs is long gone: Butler still leads the league in minutes and has missed 15 games through injury, Mirotic has missed 16 games, Dunelavy has only played 15 games, and Noah has only played 29 games this season. Noah first had treatment for plantar fasciiitis (which has plagued him ever since) in '10 under Del Negro, and missed 18 games that season. Thomas was injured in practice during the same season and was out for nearly two months. Rose only played 0.6 of a minute more under Thibs, than he did under VDN - which is mostly down to the fact Rose was a year older and had more responsibility.
 
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