Bobby Simmons confirmed Thursday he'll miss the rest of the season because his ailing right ankle and foot will require two surgeries.

"I'm sitting here watching, and I know there's a lot of things that I can do out there on the court and I just can't get out there," he told the Associated Press in a phone interview from the team's Milwaukee practice facility. "I was hoping and praying that I'd have an opportunity someday soon to get out there with the guys. That didn't happen."

Simmons is scheduled to undergo his first operation of any kind when he has arthroscopic surgery to remove bone spurs in his right ankle on Dec. 18.

He'll have a second surgery a short time later on his right foot to correct a cyst in his heel bone and help ease plantar fasciitis, an inflammation of the tissue that connects the heel to base of the toes.

"It wasn't excruciating pain, but you know your own body and it's just a feeling that I had that I never felt before," Simmons said. "Some days, it throbbed a little bit, some days it didn't. It really just mattered how much pain it could be possible to handle."