{"id":254419,"date":"2025-11-01T01:24:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T01:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/254419\/"},"modified":"2025-11-01T01:24:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T01:24:08","slug":"matisse-thybulle-sidelined-after-surgery-on-left-thumb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/254419\/","title":{"rendered":"Matisse Thybulle sidelined after surgery on left thumb"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PORTLAND, Ore. &#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/por\/portland-trail-blazers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Portland Trail Blazers<\/a> guard\/forward <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/3907498\/matisse-thybulle\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Matisse Thybulle<\/a> had surgery to repair a ligament in his left thumb and will be re-evaluated in four to six weeks, the team said Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Thybulle was injured during Wednesday night&#8217;s game at Utah. He clutched his left hand after a fast break at the end of the first quarter and left the game at the start of the second.<\/p>\n<p>The Trail Blazers said an MRI on Thursday revealed a tear of the ulnar collateral ligament in his thumb. The surgery was performed Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Thybulle, 28, was starting his seventh NBA season. He averaged five points and one rebound per game.<\/p>\n<p>Thybulle missed the bulk of last season because of knee and ankle injuries but was a defensive force for the final 15 games, with 33 steals and nine blocks.<\/p>\n<p>The Trail Blazers played the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/den\/denver-nuggets\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Denver Nuggets<\/a> on Friday night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PORTLAND, Ore. &#8212; Portland Trail Blazers guard\/forward Matisse Thybulle had surgery to repair a ligament in his left&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":254420,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-254419","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\/254419","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=254419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254419\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}