{"id":233430,"date":"2025-10-22T21:30:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T21:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/233430\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T21:30:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T21:30:08","slug":"thunders-alex-caruso-suffers-concussion-placed-in-protocol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/233430\/","title":{"rendered":"Thunder&#8217;s Alex Caruso suffers concussion, placed in protocol"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><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> guard <a data-player-guid=\"41bcf5f1-07fd-effe-1f0c-5b58221253f0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/2991350\/alex-caruso\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alex Caruso<\/a> suffered a concussion during Tuesday&#8217;s game against <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"78113ad4-1ac7-0c04-dada-388a6ff4e15e\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/hou\/houston-rockets\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Houston<\/a> and has been placed in the league&#8217;s concussion protocol.<\/p>\n<p>Per the NBA&#8217;s policy, Caruso must clear a series of steps designed to ensure symptom-free behavior before resuming basketball activities.<\/p>\n<p>Editor&#8217;s Picks<a name=\"&amp;lpos=story:editorspicks:inline:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/nba\/story\/_\/id\/46680011\/gilgeous-alexander-winning-fts-put-bow-thunder-ring-night\" class=\"img-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/r1563904_1296x1296_1-1.jpg&#038;w=130&#038;h=130&#038;scale=crop&#038;location=center.jpeg\" width=\"65\" height=\"65\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Caruso played 30 minutes and had 8 points, 3 assists and 2 rebounds in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/nba\/story\/_\/id\/46680011\/gilgeous-alexander-winning-fts-put-bow-thunder-ring-night\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">125-124 double-overtime victory<\/a> against the Rockets.<\/p>\n<p>The Thunder next play the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"547fc042-3e02-4795-9637-9ab84322b625\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/ind\/indiana-pacers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Indiana Pacers<\/a> on Thursday night (TV: 7:30 p.m. ET, ESPN).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oklahoma City guard Alex Caruso suffered a concussion during Tuesday&#8217;s game against Houston and has been placed in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":233431,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-233430","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\/233430","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=233430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233430\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}