{"id":336971,"date":"2025-12-09T10:49:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T10:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/336971\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T10:49:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T10:49:09","slug":"aussie-nba-stuff-alex-toohey-axed-by-golden-state-warriors-due-to-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/336971\/","title":{"rendered":"Aussie NBA stuff Alex Toohey axed by Golden State Warriors due to injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alex Toohey\u2019s rough start to his NBA career has taken a turn for the worse, after the former NBL Next Star was cut by the Golden State Warriors just a quarter of the way through his rookie season. <\/p>\n<p>Toohey was taken with the 52nd pick in the 2025 NBA Draft following two impressive years with the Sydney Kings, but the Australian wing struggled to find his way onto the court in his first year with the Warriors, and has now been ruled out for the season requiring knee surgery.<\/p>\n<p>Code Sports has been told Toohey will have surgery on his knee on Tuesday in America &#8211; Wednesay in Australia &#8211; and will stay in the States to complete his rehab.<\/p>\n<p>This injury has seen Golden State move on from the 21-year-old, opting to bring in former Oklahoma City Thunder player Malevy Leons, according to <a class=\"body-link\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/anthonyVslater\/status\/1998114473119465487\" rel=\"nofollow\">ESPN\u2019s Anthony Slater<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It is a cruel blow for Toohey, who had appeared in just two games for the Santa Cruz Warriors this season &#8211; Golden State\u2019s G League affiliate &#8211; averaging seven points and three rebounds per game. <\/p>\n<p>The jumbo two-way wing was viewed as a project by the Warriors, whose core of Stephen Curry, Jimmy Butler and Draymond Green made them a title contending squad, leaving little room for Toohey to find his feet early in the season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not expecting to come in and play a 1000 minutes a game, but more importantly get used to the systems and keep developing my body and IQ,\u201d Toohey told <a class=\"body-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.codesports.com.au\/basketball\/from-king-to-warrior-under-the-legendary-steve-kerrs-reign-the-rise-of-former-sydney-kings-nbl-next-star-alex-toohey\/news-story\/b52df12d922af6f7707087b3df9f84e6\" data-tgev=\"event119\" data-tgev-container=\"bodylink\" data-tgev-order=\"b52df12d922af6f7707087b3df9f84e6\" data-tgev-label=\"basketball\" data-tgev-metric=\"ev\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CODE Sports ahead of the season<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThen just being willing to learn from the coach and fellow players.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI spoke to Steve the night I was drafted, which was so cool. It\u2019s hard to describe the moment. Just grateful to have that connection with one of the greatest people in this field of basketball ever.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s definitely a privilege.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is that connection there with Bogut and Longley and Steve was excited. \u201cHe said he knows I\u2019m the type of basketball player they like to have in their organisation and he has heard some pretty good things about me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Toohey was one of four Australians taken in the second round of this year\u2019s draft, alongside Cleveland\u2019s Tyrese Proctor, Minnesota\u2019s Rocco Zikarsky and Chicago\u2019s Lachlan Olbrich.<\/p>\n<p>Among this quartet, Proctor and Olbrich have seen NBA regular season action, while Zikarsky took to the floor during pre-season and has been dominating in the G League. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alex Toohey\u2019s rough start to his NBA career has taken a turn for the worse, after the former&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":336972,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[2095,64,63,726,11309,5127,7901,187703,2105,5552,9286,7902,187704,36099,2041,2067,5548,187702,3752,139488,57170,85,7903,8097,2614],"class_list":["post-336971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-america","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-basketball-player","tag-chicago","tag-draymond-green","tag-fellow-players","tag-getty-images-inc","tag-golden-state-warriors","tag-illinois","tag-jimmy-butler","tag-jumbo-two-way-wing","tag-knee-surgery","tag-north-america","tag-northern-america","tag-oklahoma-city-thunder","tag-regular-season-action","tag-rookie-season","tag-san-francisco-chronicle","tag-season-ending-injury","tag-sports","tag-stephen-curry","tag-steve","tag-united-states-of-america"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336971","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=336971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336971\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/336972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}