{"id":656279,"date":"2026-05-07T21:00:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T21:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/656279\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T21:00:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T21:00:10","slug":"hornets-guard-brandon-miller-out-indefinitely-after-surgery-to-address-left-shoulder-instability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/656279\/","title":{"rendered":"Hornets guard Brandon Miller out indefinitely after surgery to address left shoulder instability"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2195672\" class=\"size-large wp-image-2195672\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/GettyImages-2271925409-scaled-e1778179160785-1568x881.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1568\" height=\"881\"  \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2195672\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brandon Miller averaged a team-leading 20.2 points, 4.9 rebounds, 3.3 assists and 1.0 steals in 30.3 minutes per game this season.<\/p>\n<p>CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) \u2014\u00a0Charlotte Hornets guard Brandon Miller underwent surgery on Wednesday to address left shoulder instability.<\/p>\n<p>Miller will be out indefinitely and additional updates on his status will be provided as appropriate, but the <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/rSvYRvZHQv\" rel=\"nofollow\">team said<\/a> he is expected to make a full recovery.<\/p>\n<p>He missed 13 consecutive games beginning in late October after sustaining a left shoulder subluxation injury. He played the remainder of the season with a wrap around the shoulder.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the injury, Miller played in 65 games and averaged a team-leading 20.2 points as well as 4.9 rebounds, 3.3 assists and 1.0 steals in 30.3 minutes per game. He shot a career-high 38.3% from 3-point range and made 204 3-pointers.<\/p>\n<p>The No. 2 overall pick in 2023 also ranked ninth in the NBA by hitting 89.2% of his free throws.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brandon Miller averaged a team-leading 20.2 points, 4.9 rebounds, 3.3 assists and 1.0 steals in 30.3 minutes per&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":656280,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,317326,590,85],"class_list":["post-656279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-brandon-miller-injury","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656279","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=656279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656279\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/656280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=656279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=656279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=656279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}