{"id":520258,"date":"2026-03-05T12:07:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T12:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/520258\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T12:07:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T12:07:11","slug":"wizards-forward-kyshawn-george-elbow-out-at-least-3-weeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/520258\/","title":{"rendered":"Wizards&#8217; forward Kyshawn George (elbow) out at least 3 weeks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2087098\" class=\"wp-image-2087098 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/GettyImages-2263638617-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\"  \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2087098\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kyshawn George, a first-round draft pick in 2024, has started all 48 games he has appeared in this season.<\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 The Washington Wizards announced Wednesday that forward Kyshawn George partially tore the UCL in his left elbow Monday against Houston.<\/p>\n<p>The team says the 22-year-old George will be re-evaluated in three weeks.<\/p>\n<p>George, a first-round draft pick in 2024, has started all 48 games he has appeared in this season. He\u2019s averaging 14.8 points and shooting 38% from 3-point range.<\/p>\n<p>The Wizards host Utah on Thursday night in what is expected to be newly acquired point guard<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/news\/trae-young-set-to-make-wizards-debut-on-thursday\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0Trae Young\u2019s debut<\/a>\u00a0with Washington after he was<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/news\/hawks-trade-trae-young-to-wizards-for-cj-mccollum-corey-kispert\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0traded from Atlanta\u00a0<\/a>in January.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kyshawn George, a first-round draft pick in 2024, has started all 48 games he has appeared in this&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":520259,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,259626,590,85],"class_list":["post-520258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-kyshawn-george-elbow","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520258","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=520258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520258\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/520259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=520258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=520258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=520258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}