{"id":260683,"date":"2025-11-03T23:08:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T23:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/260683\/"},"modified":"2025-11-03T23:08:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T23:08:08","slug":"sources-spurs-dylan-harper-calf-strain-expected-out-weeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/260683\/","title":{"rendered":"Sources: Spurs&#8217; Dylan Harper (calf strain) expected out weeks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-clubhouse-guid=\"8aef8547-32f5-0943-a1de-e734567674cc\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/sa\/san-antonio-spurs\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">San Antonio Spurs<\/a> rookie guard <a data-player-guid=\"d8fd1989-052d-3e45-91f2-6fda54fa5c8e\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/5037871\/dylan-harper\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dylan Harper<\/a> suffered a left calf strain on Sunday and is expected to miss multiple weeks, sources told ESPN&#8217;s Shams Charania on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Harper suffered the injury while defending a <a data-player-guid=\"d8842499-5c79-e6c6-deb0-9eff19d50af9\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/4278076\/nick-richards\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nick Richards<\/a> dunk in the second quarter of a 130-118 loss to the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"c6eade89-5971-0e84-8ccb-cd91482b2b50\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/phx\/phoenix-suns\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Phoenix Suns<\/a>. An MRI on Monday revealed the strain.<\/p>\n<p>After falling awkwardly on a block attempt, Harper winced after walking toward the bench. Upon checking out, the rookie headed to the locker room with a member of San Antonio&#8217;s medical staff and was later ruled out. He was seen leaving the arena after the game in crutches and a walking boot.<\/p>\n<p>The Spurs are already without veteran point guard <a data-player-guid=\"5f18d1cf-1c2e-3601-a04e-1a3fc84d8ef1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/4066259\/deaaron-fox\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">De&#8217;Aaron Fox<\/a>, who hasn&#8217;t yet played in a game this season because of a hamstring injury suffered during the summer before training camp.<\/p>\n<p>Harper, 19, played a total of 11 minutes against the Suns and contributed 12 points on 5-of-8 shooting. The Spurs&#8217; No. 2 pick entered the game fourth on the team in scoring (14.4), also averaging 4.6 rebounds, 2.4 assists and 1.2 steals in five games.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yeah, I hope the best for him, for sure,&#8221; <a data-player-guid=\"0e8844b2-d923-3926-82d2-f19a29d69490\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/5104157\/victor-wembanyama\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Victor Wembanyama<\/a> said of Harper after Sunday&#8217;s game. &#8220;We&#8217;ve seen great things from him. It&#8217;s actually been hard to believe how good he&#8217;s played. But it happens. We have to be able to deal with injuries. But at the same time, we&#8217;re going to get some guys back.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>ESPN&#8217;s Michael C. Wright contributed to this report. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"San Antonio Spurs rookie guard Dylan Harper suffered a left calf strain on Sunday and is expected to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":260684,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-260683","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\/260683","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=260683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260683\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/260684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}