National Basketball Association

Report: Boozer suffers turf toe injury

Published Apr. 27, 2011 1:00 a.m. ET

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Bulls forward Carlos Boozer suffered a turf toe injury during the team's series-clinching win over the Indiana Pacers, the Chicago Tribune reported Wednesday.

Boozer said he heard something pop in his right foot, forcing him to miss the last 18 minutes Tuesday night.

"We'll just see how it goes every day, try to get the pain out of it," Boozer said after the win. "I'm in a great deal of pain. But I got until the next round starts. I told (coach Tom Thibodeau) if he needed me I'd be out there and try to gut it out. He said, 'If I need you, I'll put you in. If not, we'll just try to get it better.'"

The 29-year-old will have nearly a week to rest the injury, as the top-seeded Bulls open their Eastern Conference Semifinal series against Atlanta or Orlando Monday night.

Boozer, plagued by foul trouble throughout the five games against Indiana, scored just two points Tuesday night on 1-for-5 shooting. He was assessed two early fouls, forcing him to the bench, before getting two more fouls early in the third quarter.

"It was tough to be in foul trouble almost every game this series," he told the Tribune. "But they called it how they want to call it. They let some stuff go. They called some other things. Give our team credit for hanging together and having great perseverance to get through the tough calls and tough moments in this series and keep winning."