The Milwaukee Bucks announced that forward Ersan Ilyasova's season is finished. The Turkish power forward visited with surgeon Dr. Richard Ferkel on Wednesday, according to Charles F. Gardner of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, and it was recommended that rest and rehab will be needed for Ilyasova to recover from an injury that bothered him throughout the season.
Bucks shut down Ersan Ilyasova due to ankle injury
After visiting a specialist, Ersan Ilyasova was instructed to rest his ankle that’s led to a tough year for the forward.
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Surgery won’t be required, according to Gardner.
Ilyasova injured his ankle in the preseason, missed all of training camp and then returned for the season opener. He played in 55 of the Bucks’ 71 games so far and throughout struggled with his shooting. Last year and the year before that, Ilyasova shot better than 44 percent from the three-point line, averaged 13 points per game and grabbed at least seven rebounds a game.
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In the same minutes this year, he averaged 11.2 points and 6.2 rebounds but shot just better than 40 percent overall. His three-point shooting dipped dramatically to 28 percent as Milwaukee tumbled to the league’s worse record.
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