{"id":325675,"date":"2025-12-03T20:29:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T20:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/325675\/"},"modified":"2025-12-03T20:29:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T20:29:07","slug":"sources-warriors-deanthony-melton-to-make-season-debut-vs-sixers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/325675\/","title":{"rendered":"Sources: Warriors’ De’Anthony Melton to make season debut vs. Sixers"},"content":{"rendered":"

SAN FRANCISCO — Veteran guard De’Anthony Melton<\/a> will make his season debut for the Golden State Warriors<\/a> on Thursday night in Philadelphia<\/a>, sources told ESPN’s Shams Charania, checking the final box in his return from ACL surgery.<\/p>\n

Melton suffered a partially torn ACL early last season after a misstep against the Dallas Mavericks<\/a> on Dec. 11. He said he knew something was wrong at halftime of the game, but he played through it.<\/p>\n

After tests revealed the partial tear, Melton spent several weeks consulting with doctors before ultimately deciding on season-ending surgery. He had the procedure on Dec. 4, 2024. His season debut on Thursday night will be exactly one year after the surgery.<\/p>\n

“I feel amazing,” Melton said recently after several practices and scrimmages.<\/p>\n

After the ACL surgery, the Warriors traded Melton to the Brooklyn Nets<\/a>, using his expiring salary to get Dennis Schroder<\/a>, who was later added into the deadline deal for Jimmy Butler.<\/p>\n

Melton said he felt no bitterness toward the organization for sending him away and sought a reunion this summer in free agency, signing back with the Warriors, in part, because of his trust in the team’s medical staff and his established relationship with Steph Curry<\/a> and Draymond Green<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“I would’ve traded myself (last season),” Melton said.<\/p>\n

Melton rejoins the Warriors’ rotation at an unstable time. They are 11-11 and heading out on a three-game road trip to Philadelphia, Cleveland Cavaliers<\/a> and Chicago Bulls<\/a>. Curry is currently out with a thigh contusion, while Jimmy Butler, Jonathan Kuminga<\/a> and Al Horford<\/a> are all questionable for Thursday’s game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN FRANCISCO — Veteran guard De’Anthony Melton will make his season debut for the Golden State Warriors on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":176428,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":["post-325675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325675","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=325675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325675\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}