{"id":254580,"date":"2025-11-01T03:11:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T03:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/254580\/"},"modified":"2025-11-01T03:11:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T03:11:10","slug":"bucks-kevin-porter-jr-to-miss-4-weeks-with-knee-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/254580\/","title":{"rendered":"Bucks’ Kevin Porter Jr. to miss 4 weeks with knee injury"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Jamal CollierNov 1, 2025, 02:00 PM<\/p>\n

Close<\/a>Jamal Collier is an NBA reporter at ESPN. Collier covers the Milwaukee Bucks, Chicago Bulls and the Midwest region of the NBA, including stories such as Minnesota’s iconic jersey swap between Anthony Edwards and Justin Jefferson. He has been at ESPN since Sept. 2021 and previously covered the Bulls for the Chicago Tribune. You can reach out to Jamal on Twitter @JamalCollier or via email Jamal.Collier@espn.com.<\/p>\n

Milwaukee Bucks<\/a> guard Kevin Porter Jr.<\/a> will miss approximately four weeks with a right meniscus injury that will require a minor orthopedic procedure, the team announced Friday night.<\/p>\n

Porter had been working his way back from a sprained left ankle he sustained during the first quarter of the Bucks’ opening night victory on Oct. 22. But he injured his knee while working out on the court on Thursday.<\/p>\n

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Porter, 25, began the season as the team’s starting point guard. He averaged 11.7 points, 3.9 rebounds and 3.7 assists in 30 games with Milwaukee last season after he was acquired at the trade deadline.<\/p>\n

He was off to a fast start in the season opener against the Wizards<\/a>, scoring 10 points on 3-of-5 shooting before the ankle injury forced him from the game near the end of the first quarter.<\/p>\n

In Porter’s absence, Ryan Rollins<\/a> has emerged as the Bucks’ starting point guard. Rollins has set a career high in scoring in back-to-back games and is averaging 18.6 points and 5.0 assists on 52% shooting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jamal CollierNov 1, 2025, 02:00 PM CloseJamal Collier is an NBA reporter at ESPN. Collier covers the Milwaukee…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":254581,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-254580","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\/254580","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=254580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254580\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}