Zach LaVine sits out for 1st time this season, reluctantly missing Chicago Bulls game against Phoenix Suns with an ankle injury: ‘I think in his heart he always wants to play’

“I just don’t think physically he’s been right the last couple games,” coach Billy Donvoan said before the game. “He can run and he can cut and he can do those things, but he can’t do them at the level that he needs to do it at. The starting, the stopping, the planting, the jumping, the explosiveness, I think he’s felt like he’s lost a lot of that.”