Chicago Bulls NBA star Derrick Rose is out for the season.
The team said on Monday that Rose had successful surgery to repair a torn medial meniscus in his right knee.
Rose was hurt on Friday night at Portland.
The 2011 NBA MVP missed all of last season after tearing a ligament in his left knee in Chicago's 2012 playoff opener against Philadelphia.
He has played in just 50 NBA games - 49 in the regular season and that lone playoff game - since the Bulls' run to the Eastern Conference finals during his MVP season.
The latest injury occurred in the third quarter against the Trail Blazers.
He lost his footing while trying to change direction to get back in defence when Nicolas Batum stole a pass from Joakim Noah and started the other way. Rose limped across the court and couldn't put any weight on his knee. After the Blazers scored, he went out of the game during a timeout.
It didn't appear there was any contact on the play. Rose was unable to return and was on crutches afterward.
With Rose back, the Bulls were expected to challenge LeBron James and the Miami Heat for supremacy in the Eastern Conference and contend for their first championship since the Michael Jordan-Scottie Pippen era. Instead, they're in a familiar spot - trying to get by without their cornerstone player.
"We, of course, feel very badly for Derrick. He's in good spirits, about as well as can be expected under the circumstances, and he's already thinking about his rehab," coach Tom Thibodeau said on Sunday, before the team announced their star was gone for the season. "Typical Derrick - he's concerned about his team, his teammates."
The top-seeded Bulls bowed out in the first round of the playoffs in 2012 against Philadelphia after Rose went down and fell into a season-long holding pattern without him last year, waiting for a return that didn't happen.
His recovery took on a circus-like feel. Fans saw him shooting and dunking before games last season and wondered why he wasn't playing, particularly as the Bulls fought through injuries and illnesses down the stretch.
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