{"id":353376,"date":"2025-12-17T07:00:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T07:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/353376\/"},"modified":"2025-12-17T07:00:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T07:00:07","slug":"max-king-injury-st-kilda-star-suffers-another-blow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/353376\/","title":{"rendered":"Max King injury: St Kilda star suffers another blow"},"content":{"rendered":"

St Kilda<\/a> star Max King is in doubt to start the 2026 AFL season after it was revealed he had surgery again on his troublesome right knee.<\/p>\n

In an injury press release, the Saints revealed King had undergone surgery but would be in full training by the end of the next month.<\/p>\n

“Max King has also undergone a minor procedure on his knee however is expected to be back in full training end of January,” St Kilda’s injury report said.<\/p>\n

King didn’t play a match in 2025 because of his right knee issues and hasn’t played since June 30, 2024 in a Round 16 loss to Port Adelaide<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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He signed an eight-year contract in October 2024, but is yet to don Saints colours since committing to that deal.<\/p>\n

King has had a variety of issues with his right knee, including the medial area, which he had surgery on halfway through the recent season.<\/p>\n

St Kilda coach Ross Lyon has been confident King will return and was focused on the long term when he spoke about the key forward earlier this year.<\/p>\n

“We’re looking it will be six weeks, roughly, from here. But I said to Max, and this is for all our supporters, it’s not about six weeks \u2014 it’s about six years, ” Lyon said in April.<\/p>\n

“Surgeons just don’t want to slice people up for the sake of it. Structurally, it’s really sound, but that needed to be done.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"St Kilda star Max King is in doubt to start the 2026 AFL season after it was revealed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":353377,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-353376","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-afl","8":"tag-afl","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-australian-football-league","12":"tag-australianfootballleague","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353376","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=353376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353376\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/353377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}