{"id":163408,"date":"2025-09-23T12:07:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T12:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/163408\/"},"modified":"2025-09-23T12:07:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T12:07:08","slug":"fred-vanvleet-suffers-knee-injury-reportedly-tears-acl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/163408\/","title":{"rendered":"Fred VanVleet suffers knee injury, reportedly tears ACL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1847918\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/GettyImages-2208346599.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"5207\" height=\"3471\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Houston Rockets guard Fred VanVleet will miss significant time after tearing an anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) in his knee, according to multiple reports.<\/p>\n<p>The injury, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/story\/_\/id\/46348548\/sources-rockets-fred-vanvleet-torn-acl-miss-season\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">first reported<\/a> by ESPN\u2019s Shams Charania, suffered during an offseason workout in the Bahamas, would strip the Rockets of a steadying presence at the point. VanVleet joined Houston two seasons ago in free agency, and finished last season averaging 14.1 points (shooting 34.5% from 3 on 7.7 attempts) and 5.6 assists while providing his usual dogged effort on defense.<\/p>\n<p>Yahoo National NBA Reporter Kelly Iko reported that VanVleet is scheduled for surgery this week.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Just in: Houston Rockets&#8217; Fred VanVleet has suffered a torn ACL, sources tell ESPN. A devastating, potentially season-ending loss for the Rockets with their starting point guard and leader. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Qhf0V58DwR\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/Qhf0V58DwR<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ShamsCharania\/status\/1970215754697212375?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">September 22, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Rockets starting point guard Fred VanVleet has suffered a torn right ACL, sources tell <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/YahooSports?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@YahooSports<\/a>. VanVleet, 31, suffered the injury during a team minicamp in the Bahamas \u2014 and is scheduled for surgery this week.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Kelly Iko (@KellyIko) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KellyIko\/status\/1970218159610151200?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">September 22, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Houston Rockets guard Fred VanVleet will miss significant time after tearing an anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) in his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":163409,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,107863,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-163408","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-fred-vanvleet-injury","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163408","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=163408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163408\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}