Wheel bearing gone bad coincidence?

Michigan said:

i have a 2004 tahoe z71 4wd with 168k miles. Got it with 149k miles

I recently took the truck to the tire shop to have my tires replaced on my 20” aftermarket rims. Installed some Hankook Dynapro ATM

Anyways about a 2,000 miles or less of driving the truck I’m getting this loud humming or roaring sound from the wheel. Sounds like an airplane and when driving around a corner on the freeway the noise goes away so I’m concluding it’s the front drivers side wheel bearing.

Is it a coincidence that it went bad or is could it have something to do with the tire shop not reinstalling the wheel back on right? For example I had a tire shop strip my studs on a different vehicle one time because they didn’t have the wheel pushed all the way back in the studs and the guy just torqued the lug nuts on with the tool (drawing a blank as to what it’s called lol)

I never had an issue with the wheel bearing in the past but they are probably something that just fail without any warning all of a sudden? Truck still drives fine just loud as hell. Can barely hear the radio on the freeway

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