{"id":123661,"date":"2025-09-06T17:43:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T17:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/123661\/"},"modified":"2025-09-06T17:43:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T17:43:07","slug":"dylan-harper-undergoes-surgery-to-repair-torn-ligament-in-thumb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/123661\/","title":{"rendered":"Dylan Harper undergoes surgery to repair torn ligament in thumb"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The first injury news of the new season has hit for the Spurs, and it\u2019s not even training camp yet. According to a Spurs press release, second overall pick Dylan Harper suffered a partial tear of the collateral ligament in his left thumb on Wednesday and underwent successful surgery to repair it today.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The bad news it\u2019s his shooting hand. The good news is while he will likely miss training camp and at least some of the preseason \u2014 which, make no mistake, is not ideal for a rookie \u2014 he is expected to return for the regular season opener on October 22 against Cooper Flagg and the Dallas Mavericks. (And, let\u2019s face it, that match-up is likely why they are opening against their IH-35 rivals for the third season in a row.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Off-season injuries are never ideal, but players have to practice to stay in shape. It could always be much worse, as the Thunder also just announced the rookie Thomas Sorber will miss the entire 2025-26 season with a torn ACL suffered in practice. Hopefully there are no more injuries between now and the start of the season, since the Spurs have seen enough of those over the last couple of years and just got Victor Wembanyama and De\u2019Aaron Fox back themselves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The first injury news of the new season has hit for the Spurs, and it\u2019s not even training&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":123662,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85,69281],"class_list":["post-123661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-sports","tag-spurs-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123661\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}