{"id":396373,"date":"2026-01-07T00:26:42","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T00:26:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/396373\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T00:26:42","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T00:26:42","slug":"kings-keegan-murray-to-miss-3-4-weeks-with-ankle-sprain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/396373\/","title":{"rendered":"Kings&#8217; Keegan Murray to miss 3-4 weeks with ankle sprain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SACRAMENTO &#8212; <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"e266c4ea-9af3-1bd8-06fb-fd608fd30e26\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/sac\/sacramento-kings\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sacramento Kings<\/a> forward <a data-player-guid=\"3077c486-4dd1-36e7-ab23-aa28144b7a1b\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/4594327\/keegan-murray\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Keegan Murray<\/a> will miss at least three to four weeks with a left ankle sprain, the team announced.<\/p>\n<p>Murray suffered the injury Sunday night against the Bucks, landing awkwardly on a hanging drive with 4:01 left in the third quarter. Murray immediately grabbed at the left ankle in pain and needed assistance to limp to the locker room.<\/p>\n<p>This is the latest blow in a Kings&#8217; season that has already spiraled. They are 8-28, having lost five consecutive games by double digits, giving them the worst point differential (minus-12) in the NBA.<\/p>\n<p>Murray had been durable his first three seasons in the league, appearing in 231 of a possible 246 games. But he missed the first 15 games of his fourth season with a torn UCL in his left thumb and could miss the rest of January with this ankle sprain.<\/p>\n<p>The Kings signed Murray to a five-year, $140 million extension in October, tying him to the franchise through the 2030-31 season. In his 19 games, he has averaged 14.6 points and 6.1 rebounds, ranking fifth in the NBA at 35.9 minutes per game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SACRAMENTO &#8212; Sacramento Kings forward Keegan Murray will miss at least three to four weeks with a left&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":396374,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-396373","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-nba","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396373","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=396373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396373\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/396374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}