Two days after playing the full 48 minutes in an 89-80 victory over Indiana, Bulls center Ben Wallace skipped practice.

Coach Scott Skiles said he wanted to give Wallace two days of rest because of a bruised left knee suffered sometime last week. The Bulls did not practice Sunday.

As for never sending in a substitute for Wallace, Skiles doesn?t think that will happen very often.

?I actually intended to bring P.J. (Brown) back for him at some point and give him a blow,? Skiles said Monday at the Berto Center. ?But I kept asking him (during timeouts) if he was all right. He?s said, ?Yeah, everything?s good.?

?Then we came rushing back so quickly, I didn?t want to disrupt anything. Every time I kind of went to take him out, it just didn?t seem right. Clearly, he played very well. He?s capable of doing it.?