{"id":277468,"date":"2025-11-11T10:54:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T10:54:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/277468\/"},"modified":"2025-11-11T10:54:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T10:54:15","slug":"cavaliers-darius-garland-exits-game-in-miami-with-toe-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/277468\/","title":{"rendered":"Cavaliers&#8217; Darius Garland exits game in Miami with toe injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">A wild sequence of events culminates in Andrew Wiggins finishing a lob at the buzzer to give Miami a 140-138 win in OT.<\/p>\n<p>MIAMI (AP) \u2014 Cleveland\u2019s Darius Garland is having toe issues again.<\/p>\n<p>The Cavaliers\u2019 two-time All-Star guard left his team\u2019s game in Miami during the third quarter on Monday night with a toe injury on his left foot. It was not immediately clear if it was an aggravation of the same injury that forced him to have surgery in June.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI haven\u2019t gotten an update yet,\u201d Cavaliers coach Kenny Atkinson said after Cleveland\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/game\/cle-vs-mia-0022500201\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">140-138 overtime loss<\/a>. \u201cObviously, he couldn\u2019t continue. Took a fall there and tried to come back. We\u2019ll get an update here soon.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Garland talked with the team about the toe at halftime and decided to try to keep playing. He played 6:03 of the third quarter, then left and didn\u2019t return.<\/p>\n<p>Garland began dealing with the toe injury in March, sat out four playoff games and was ineffective when he did come back for Cleveland\u2019s final three games of its second-round loss to Indiana.<\/p>\n<p>He missed Cleveland\u2019s first seven games this season while ramping up toward a return, then averaged 14 points in his first two appearances against Philadelphia and Washington. He had 11 points on 2-for-9 shooting in 19 minutes against the Heat on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt the end of the day, hey, there\u2019s going to be setbacks. There\u2019s going to be things that happen, right?\u201d Cavaliers guard Donovan Mitchell said after the game. \u201cIt\u2019s not about him not working. \u2026 He\u2019s been in the gym. He\u2019s been working on himself. Hey, this is this is all part of the progress. And progress isn\u2019t linear, right? You\u2019re going to have to be able to have moments like this.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A wild sequence of events culminates in Andrew Wiggins finishing a lob at the buzzer to give Miami&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":277469,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,161011,590,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-277468","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-darius-garland-toe","11":"tag-nba","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277468","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=277468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277468\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/277469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}