{"id":519425,"date":"2026-03-05T03:17:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T03:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/519425\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T03:17:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T03:17:09","slug":"wizards-george-out-at-least-three-weeks-with-ucl-tear-in-elbow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/519425\/","title":{"rendered":"Wizards&#8217; George out at least three weeks with UCL tear in elbow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/basketball\/nba\/players\/kyshawn-george\/0e03dd88-2c39-4b4a-8b47-0c3c8ba82305\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kyshawn George<\/a> has suffered a UCL tear in his left elbow and will be re-evaluated in three weeks, the team <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/WizPRStats\/status\/2029351319727698286?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">announced <\/a>on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The 22-year-old sophomore suffered the injury in Monday&#8217;s loss to the Houston Rockets and missed Tuesday&#8217;s loss to the Orlando Magic. <\/p>\n<p>George is averaging 14.8 points, 5.1 rebounds and 4.5 assists on 43.8 per cent shooting through 48 games. <\/p>\n<p>The injury comes as the Wizards were getting closer to full health. Recently acquired Trae Young is set to make his team debut on Thursday against the Utah Jazz. <\/p>\n<p>Washington has been one of the worst teams in the NBA this season with a 16-45 record.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kyshawn George has suffered a UCL tear in his left elbow and will be re-evaluated in three weeks,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":519426,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":["post-519425","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\/519425","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=519425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519425\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/519426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=519425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=519425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=519425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}