A trying season for Chicago Bulls forward Patrick Williams has gotten even more difficult. Williams is going to miss at least two weeks due to a left foot injury.

The fourth-year forward was diagnosed with acute bone edema in his left foot. Williams was injured in the Bulls game on January 25. The two-week timeline will keep Williams out until after the trade deadline on February 8.

Chicago Bulls guard Zach LaVine will miss at least one more week due to a sprained ankle. However, it's possible LaVine won't play again before the trade deadline.

"I just don't know," is how Bulls coach Billy Donovan answered a question about LaVine playing again before the trade deadline.

Lavine has been out since suffering a sprained right ankle on January 18. LaVine had previously missed 17 games due to foot soreness.

The Chicago Bulls are open to trading Zach LaVine, as per his request. However, the Bulls aren't looking to give LaVine away in a deal just to shed his salary. Chicago is still looking for a strong return for the veteran guard.

The Bulls and Detroit Pistons recently engaged in trade discussions involving LaVine. However, things never got serious enough for a trade to be considered close.

LaVine requested a trade earlier this season, and it was reported Chicago would attempt to accommodate his request. However, no serious market has developed for LaVine, who is owed just over $178 million through 2026-27.

The Chicago Bulls and Detroit Pistons have engaged on trade discussions involving Zach LaVine. However, the Pistons have found the Bulls asking price for LaVine to be too high.

Detroit considers Cade Cunningham, Jalen Duren, Jaden Ivey and Ausar Thompson as their blue-chip pieces. The Pistons have no interest in trading any of the four players.

Chicago has been focused on a trade package for LaVine that involve Bojan Bogdanovic and one of Cunningham, Duren, Ivey or Thompson. The Pistons have held firm for now, but could re-engage if the Bulls lower their asking price ahead of the trade deadline.

The Chicago Bulls would need multiple first-round picks to even consider trading Alex Caruso, sources told Jake Fischer of Yahoo! Sports.

Fischer echoes earlier reports that the Bulls are not interested in trading Caruso.

The Bucks, looking to upgrade their perimeter defense, consider Caruso as their ideal outcome.  

Zach LaVine will be out at least one week due to a sprained right ankle, the Chicago Bulls announced on Friday.

LaVine suffered the injury during Thursday night's win over the Raptors.

The Bulls went 10-7 in LaVine's absence earlier this season. 

The Los Angeles Lakers are hesitant to take on Zach LaVine's contract in a trade, sources told Jake Fischer of Yahoo! Sports.

LaVine is in the second year of a five-year, $215 million deal.

LaVine recently returned to the Bulls lineup after sitting out December with a sore foot. 

The Sixers are also not expected to pursue a deal for LaVine. 

Zach LaVine will return to game action for the first time since Nov. 28th as the Chicago Bulls play the Charlotte Hornets on Friday.

Amid trade rumors, LaVine has sat with a sore right foot.

LaVine will come off the bench and be on a minutes restriction.

The trade market the Chicago Bulls have attempted to generate for Zach LaVine has continued to be tepid and their improved play without him over the past few weeks has done nothing to improve the situation.

"Two things have to happen for the Bulls and for Zach LaVine to even have a chance, I think, really, for a trade at the deadline," said Adrian Wojnarowski on Wednesday evening. "He has to show teams that he's healthy. And he has to show them he can impact winning. This team has played much better without him. And with his contract, in this new salary cap, at a deal if you have to take him on just under $200 million left on his contract. You've got to believe this player is healthy and can impact winning. 

"There's no market for Zach LaVine right now. There's not been. And even him playing maybe increasingly better closer to the deadline, it just may not be there.

"This is a Bulls' organization that, listen, would like to find a deal for him. And they'd like to get something back. That might be asking too much. They may in the end just have to be glad they can find a team that will take on his contract."

LaVine re-signed with the Bulls in 2022 on a five-year, $215 million deal and then kept Nikola Vucevic last offseason on a three-year, $60 million extension.

"The Bulls do not want to do a teardown. They're not trying to do that," added Wojnarowski.

The Chicago Bulls have no timeline for Nikola Vucevic's return, according to Billy Donovan.

Donovan added that Vucevic will not practice with the G League's Windy City Bulls this week.

Vucevic is out indefinitely due to a strained left groin.

Meanwhile, Zach LaVine could return from a sore foot as early as this week.