{"id":311835,"date":"2025-11-27T08:58:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T08:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/311835\/"},"modified":"2025-11-27T08:58:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T08:58:10","slug":"spurs-dylan-harper-to-return-on-wednesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/311835\/","title":{"rendered":"Spurs’ Dylan Harper To Return On Wednesday"},"content":{"rendered":"

Spurs rookie guard Dylan Harper<\/a> has been cleared to return to action following a 10-game injury absence and should be active on Wednesday as the team takes on Portland, according to Jeff McDonald of The San Antonio Express-News<\/a> (subscription required).<\/p>\n

\"\"The No. 2 overall pick in this year\u2019s draft, Harper got off to an excellent start this fall, scoring double-digit points in each of his first six NBA games and averaging 14.0 points, 4.0 rebounds, and 3.8 assists in 23.5 minutes per night, with a .500\/.357\/.833 shooting line.<\/p>\n

However, playing in his sixth game of the season on November 2 in Phoenix, he exited early with a leg injury and was later diagnosed with a left calf strain<\/a>. As McDonald writes, the diagnosis came as a relief to many within the Spurs organization, who were worried that the injury might have been more significant.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen you get hurt, you get those thoughts of, \u2018What if it\u2019s the worst-case scenario?’\u201d Harper said. \u201cWhen they told me what it was, I was was like, \u2018OK, I feel a little better now.’\u201d<\/p>\n

Harper\u2019s return is a welcome development for the Spurs, who have been hit hard by the injury bug in recent weeks. Besides Harper, the team has also been missing a pair of former Rookies of the Year, Victor Wembanyama<\/a> (calf strain<\/a>) and Stephon Castle<\/a> (hip flexor strain<\/a>).<\/p>\n

San Antonio is 1-1 in NBA Cup play so far but would remain very much in the mix for a quarterfinal spot with a win over the Trail Blazers tonight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Spurs rookie guard Dylan Harper has been cleared to return to action following a 10-game injury absence and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":311836,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,12842,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-311835","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-basketball","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-basketball","11":"tag-dylan-harper","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311835","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=311835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311835\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/311836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}