{"id":85653,"date":"2025-08-21T19:08:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T19:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/85653\/"},"modified":"2025-08-21T19:08:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T19:08:07","slug":"latvias-rodions-kurucs-set-to-miss-fiba-eurobasket-2025-due-to-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/85653\/","title":{"rendered":"Latvia&#8217;s Rodions Kurucs set to miss FIBA EuroBasket 2025 due to injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"71\" data-end=\"118\">By Eurohoops team \/ <a class=\"decorated-link cursor-pointer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eurohoops.net\/en\/eurobasket\/1858773\/rodions-kurucs-latvia-fiba-eurobasket-2025-injury\/mailto:info@eurohoops.net\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-start=\"98\" data-end=\"116\">info@eurohoops.net<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Moving to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurohoops.net\/basket\/baskonia\/?lang=en\" title=\"Baskonia\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"auto-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Baskonia<\/a> from UCAM Murcia and set to return to the EuroLeague, Rodions Kurucs won\u2019t be able to participate in FIBA EuroBasket 2025 with Latvia, playing at home in Riga.<\/p>\n<p>As officially announced by the Latvian basketball federation, \u201cRodions Kurucs will not continue to prepare for the EuroBasket, as club representatives [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurohoops.net\/basket\/baskonia\/?lang=en\" title=\"Baskonia\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"auto-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Baskonia<\/a>] have scheduled an operation for him to completely cure his injury.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Following the team\u2019s defeat to Greece in the Acropolis Tournament in Athens, preparing for the biggest event of the summer, Luca Banchi shared the heel injury news regarding the Latvian forward.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSince the beginning of the preparation process, everything possible was done to help Rodions Kurucs recover from his injury, and this tournament was the last moment to decide on his participation in EuroBasket,\u201d the Italian said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnfortunately, his involvement with the national team this year has come to an end. Rodions is a special player, and his absence will have to be compensated with other qualities,\u201d Banchi added.<\/p>\n<p>On the road to FIBA EuroBasket 2025, Rodions Kurucs averaged 14.3 points and 6.0 rebounds per game in the qualifying stage.<\/p>\n<p>PHOTO CREDIT: FIBA<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurohoops.net\/latest-news\/?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Read all the latest news from the basketball world<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Eurohoops team \/ info@eurohoops.net Moving to Baskonia from UCAM Murcia and set to return to the EuroLeague,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":85654,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-85653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85653","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=85653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85653\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}