{"id":155425,"date":"2025-09-19T23:50:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T23:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/155425\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T23:50:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T23:50:09","slug":"valencia-face-injury-challenges-ahead-of-2025-26-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/155425\/","title":{"rendered":"Valencia face injury challenges ahead of 2025\/26 season"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Eurohoops Team\/\u00a0info@eurohoops.net<\/a><\/p>\n

Valencia<\/a> Basket are facing an early-season setback, with several important players sidelined.<\/p>\n

The biggest blow is the loss of Jean Montero. The Dominican guard will miss the start of the competition after undergoing surgery on a finger injury.<\/p>\n

Montero received PRP treatment through the summer so he could play with the Dominican Republic. He later returned to action with Valencia<\/a>, even scoring 23 points against Murcia, but a new knock aggravated the injury and eventually forced surgery.<\/p>\n

\u201cHad we opted for surgery in the summer, he wouldn\u2019t have played for his national team, but he would be available for the Supercopa and other games. We chose the conservative path, but these are decisions our performance department must make,\u201d explained sporting director Luis Arbalejo, according to COPE<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Sergio De Larrea, who played for Spain at EuroBasket, and Nate Sestina also dealt with injury problems.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith De Larrea we opted for conservative treatment and he hasn\u2019t had shoulder surgery. Nate Sestina had to undergo surgery this summer for two hernias,\u201d Arbalejo noted.<\/p>\n

Montero won\u2019t be the only absence.<\/p>\n

\u201cBrancou Badio has a muscular issue, he\u2019s been out for a week, it could be three or four. Xabi L\u00f3pez-Arostegui, with his fractured finger, will also be out three to four weeks. Montero, four to five. So, obviously, all three are practically ruled out for the Supercopa,\u201d Arbalejo added. \u201cIt\u2019s also very unlikely they\u2019ll make it in time for the EuroLeague double-header.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Eurohoops Team\/\u00a0info@eurohoops.net Valencia Basket are facing an early-season setback, with several important players sidelined. The biggest blow…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":155426,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-155425","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-basketball","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-basketball","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155425","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=155425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155425\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}