{"id":903788,"date":"2026-09-24T13:56:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T13:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/903788\/"},"modified":"2026-09-24T13:56:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T13:56:10","slug":"mike-james-a-game-time-decision-key-players-out-for-season-tipoff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/903788\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike James a game-time decision, key players out for season tipoff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Johnny Askounis\/<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurohoops.net\/en\/euroleague\/2011639\/injury-report-round-1-mike-james-gtd-bayern-trio-out-4-out-for-greens\/maillot:info@eurohops.net\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> info@eurohoops.net<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Several injury updates have emerged across the EuroLeague ahead of Round 1 of the 2026\u201327 Regular Season.<\/p>\n<p>Ten games will be played this Thursday and Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Review<a href=\"https:\/\/www.euroleaguebasketball.net\/en\/euroleague\/news\/injury-report-round-1-el2627\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"> the official updates<\/a> as shared by Euroleague Basketball.<\/p>\n<p>Thursday, September 24<br \/>\nDubai Basketball vs. Real Madrid (18:00 CEST)<\/p>\n<p>Dubai has not yet sent an injury report for its game against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurohoops.net\/basket\/real-madrid\/?lang=en\" title=\"Real Madrid\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"auto-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Real Madrid<\/a> on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Dwayne Bacon suffered a head injury during the Euroleague Basketball SuperCup semifinals and missed the third-place game as a result.<br \/>\nDzanan Musa did not play during the Euroleague Basketball SuperCup.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurohoops.net\/basket\/real-madrid\/?lang=en\" title=\"Real Madrid\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"auto-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Real Madrid<\/a> has not yet sent an injury report for its game at Dubai on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Hapoel IBI Tel Aviv vs. FC Bayern Munich (18:00 CEST)<\/p>\n<p>Tomer Ginat is ruled out for Hapoel\u2019s game against Bayern on Thursday, the club has confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>Niels Giffey, Kamar Baldwin and Duane Washington will not be on the roster for Bayern\u2019s game at Hapoel on Thursday, the club has confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>Crvena Zvezda Meridianbet Belgrade vs. Zalgiris Kaunas (20:00 CEST)<\/p>\n<p>Nikola Djurisic is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurohoops.net\/basket\/crvena-zvezda\/?lang=en\" title=\"Crvena Zvezda\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"auto-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Crvena Zvezda<\/a>\u2018s only absentee for its game against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurohoops.net\/basket\/zalgiris-kaunas\/?lang=en\" title=\"Zalgiris\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"auto-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Zalgiris<\/a> on Thursday, the club has confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>Semi Ojeleye suffered an ankle injury in a preseason game on September 13, but he is listed as available for Round 1.<br \/>\nNikola Djurisic was given a recovery timeline of 3-4 weeks due to a thigh injury, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euroleaguebasketball.net\/euroleague\/news\/nikola-djurisic-out-for-3-4-weeks-with-thigh-injury\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Zvezda announced on August 27<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Saben Lee is a game-time decision while Deividas Sirvydis and Kaodirichi Akobundu-Ehiogu did not make the trip for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurohoops.net\/basket\/zalgiris-kaunas\/?lang=en\" title=\"Zalgiris\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"auto-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Zalgiris<\/a>\u2018s game at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurohoops.net\/basket\/crvena-zvezda\/?lang=en\" title=\"Crvena Zvezda\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"auto-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Crvena Zvezda<\/a> on Thursday, the club has confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>Saben Lee is out for \u2018a few weeks,\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euroleaguebasketball.net\/euroleague\/news\/saben-lee-ruled-out-for-a-few-weeks-with-hamstring-strain\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the club announced on September 8<\/a>, but he is a game-time decision for Round 1.<br \/>\nDeividas Sirvydis and Kaodirichi Akobundu-Ehiogu did not make the roster that made the trip for Round 1.<\/p>\n<p>Panathinaikos AKTOR Athens vs. Paris Basketball (20:15 CEST)<\/p>\n<p>Kendrick Nunn, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurohoops.net\/basket\/kostas-sloukas\/?lang=tr\" title=\"Kostas Sloukas\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"auto-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Kostas Sloukas<\/a>, Nigel Hayes-Davis and Moustapha Fall are all ruled out for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurohoops.net\/basket\/panathinaikos\/?lang=en\" title=\"Panathinaikos\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"auto-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Panathinaikos<\/a>\u2018s game against Paris on Thursday, the club has confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>Paris has not yet sent an injury report for its game at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurohoops.net\/basket\/panathinaikos\/?lang=en\" title=\"Panathinaikos\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"auto-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Panathinaikos<\/a> on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>FC Barcelona vs. Anadolu Efes Istanbul (20:30 CEST)<\/p>\n<p>Tosan Evbuomwan and Yoan Makoundou are ruled out for Barcelona\u2019s game against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurohoops.net\/basket\/anadolu-efes\/?lang=en\" title=\"Efes\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"auto-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Efes<\/a> on Thursday, the club has confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>Mike James is a game-time decision while Isaia Cordinier and Georgios Papagiannis are ruled out for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurohoops.net\/basket\/anadolu-efes\/?lang=en\" title=\"Efes\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"auto-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Efes<\/a>\u2018s game at Barcelona on Thursday, the club has confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>Kosner Baskonia Vitoria-Gasteiz vs. Olympiacos Piraeus (20:30 CEST)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurohoops.net\/basket\/baskonia\/?lang=en\" title=\"Baskonia\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"auto-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Baskonia<\/a> has not yet sent an injury report for its game against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurohoops.net\/basket\/olympiacos\/?lang=en\" title=\"Olympiacos\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"auto-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Olympiacos<\/a> on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Alex Len did not feature in the Spanish Super Cup.<\/p>\n<p>Coach Georgios Bartzokas has his full roster available for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurohoops.net\/basket\/olympiacos\/?lang=en\" title=\"Olympiacos\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"auto-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Olympiacos<\/a>\u2018s game at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurohoops.net\/basket\/baskonia\/?lang=en\" title=\"Baskonia\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"auto-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Baskonia<\/a> on Thursday, the club has confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>Nikola Milutinov did not play during the Euroleague Basketball SuperCup, but he is listed as available for Round 1.<\/p>\n<p>LDLC ASVEL Villeurbanne vs. Maccabi Rapyd Tel Aviv (20:45 CEST)<\/p>\n<p>ASVEL has not yet sent an injury report for its game against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurohoops.net\/basket\/maccabi-tel-aviv\/?lang=en\" title=\"Maccabi\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"auto-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Maccabi<\/a> on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurohoops.net\/basket\/maccabi-tel-aviv\/?lang=en\" title=\"Maccabi\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"auto-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Maccabi<\/a> has not yet sent an injury report for its game at ASVEL on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Jimmy Clark was diagnosed with a thigh injury that would see him sidelined for 2-3 weeks, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euroleaguebasketball.net\/euroleague\/news\/jimmy-clark-sidelined-2-3-weeks-with-thigh-injury\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the club announced on September 1<\/a>. He didn\u2019t return in time for the Israeli Super Cup last weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Friday, September 25<br \/>\nBesiktas Istanbul vs. Valencia Basket (19:00 CEST)<\/p>\n<p>Besiktas has not yet sent an injury report for its game against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurohoops.net\/basket\/valencia\/?lang=en\" title=\"Valencia\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"auto-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Valencia<\/a> on Friday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurohoops.net\/basket\/valencia\/?lang=en\" title=\"Valencia\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"auto-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Valencia<\/a> has not yet sent an injury report for its game at Besiktas on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Fenerbahce Tarfin Istanbul vs. Virtus Bologna (19:45 CEST)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurohoops.net\/basket\/fenerbahce\/?lang=en\" title=\"Fenerbahce\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"auto-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Fenerbahce<\/a> has not yet sent an injury report for its game against Virtus on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Virtus has not yet sent an injury report for its game at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurohoops.net\/basket\/fenerbahce\/?lang=en\" title=\"Fenerbahce\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"auto-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Fenerbahce<\/a> on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Partizan Mozzart Bet Belgrade vs. Armani Olimpia Milan (20:45 CEST)<\/p>\n<p>Partizan has not yet sent an injury report for its game against Milan on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Milan has not yet sent an injury report for its game at Partizan on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Lorenzo Brown remains off the roster.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurohoops.net\/latest-news\/?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Read the latest News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Johnny Askounis\/ info@eurohoops.net Several injury updates have emerged across the EuroLeague ahead of Round 1 of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":903789,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-903788","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\/903788","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=903788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903788\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/903789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=903788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=903788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=903788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}