Payne's injury a setback to his development as Bull

Posted March 17, 2017 1:00 am

By Joe Cowley Chicago Sun-Times

WASHINGTON - The Cameron Payne experiment is running out of time.

After acquiring the second-year player from Oklahoma City in a trade deadline package that sent Taj Gibson and Doug McDermott to the Thunder, the plan was to get the "point guard of the future" acclimated as quickly as possible with a big dose of playing time.

A right foot injury that has required two past surgeries, however, continued to throw a big monkey wrench in those plans.

Payne missed the Wednesday loss to Memphis, and then didn't even make the trip to the nation's capital on Friday, with the foot still sore. Coach Fred Hoiberg ruled him out of today's game with Utah, as well.

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