{"id":183395,"date":"2025-10-01T20:57:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T20:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/183395\/"},"modified":"2025-10-01T20:57:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T20:57:07","slug":"rockets-dorian-finney-smith-expected-to-miss-start-of-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/183395\/","title":{"rendered":"Rockets&#8217; Dorian Finney-Smith expected to miss start of season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HOUSTON &#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/hou\/houston-rockets\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Houston Rockets<\/a> forward <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/2578185\/dorian-finney-smith\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dorian Finney-Smith<\/a> is expected to miss the start of the NBA season while recovering from offseason ankle surgery.<\/p>\n<p>Coach Ime Udoka was asked Wednesday after training camp if Finney-Smith would be ready for Houston&#8217;s opener against <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"bd458c44-2d33-47eb-cebc-35d3d4ac595c\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/okc\/oklahoma-city-thunder\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Oklahoma City<\/a> on Oct. 21.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No, probably not,&#8221; Udoka said.<\/p>\n<p>He added that he didn&#8217;t know how long his debut with the Rockets would be delayed.<\/p>\n<p>Editor&#8217;s Picks<\/p>\n<p>2 Related<\/p>\n<p>Finney-Smith joined the Rockets this offseason on a four-year contract worth almost $53 million. He spent last season with the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"2876e98b-b9bc-2920-4319-46e6943f8be4\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/lal\/los-angeles-lakers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Los Angeles Lakers<\/a> before undergoing a procedure on his left ankle in June to address a lingering injury.<\/p>\n<p>Udoka added that Finney-Smith was not yet cleared for contact activities but he has been participating in camp.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No contact but doing all the shooting and other things as well as getting treatment during practice,&#8221; Udoka said.<\/p>\n<p>Finney-Smith, a nine-year veteran, averaged 7.9 points and 3.6 rebounds last season and has averaged 8.3 points and 4.5 rebounds in a career that includes stints in <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"f00d1f4e-4ce6-d581-466c-5b52531cf7ad\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/dal\/dallas-mavericks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dallas<\/a> and <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"926db769-d35e-e282-9d7e-a05001d774ab\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/bkn\/brooklyn-nets\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brooklyn<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON &#8212; Houston Rockets forward Dorian Finney-Smith is expected to miss the start of the NBA season while&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":183396,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-183395","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183395","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=183395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183395\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}