{"id":97953,"date":"2025-08-26T20:24:06","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T20:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/97953\/"},"modified":"2025-08-26T20:24:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T20:24:06","slug":"cavaliers-max-strus-has-foot-surgery-out-3-4-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/97953\/","title":{"rendered":"Cavaliers&#8217; Max Strus has foot surgery, out 3-4 months"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-clubhouse-guid=\"ec79ad1f-e6d2-7762-a2db-7fe97d35126b\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/cle\/cleveland-cavaliers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cleveland Cavaliers<\/a> guard <a data-player-guid=\"ac438cf4-ae0c-8aec-7efc-a048bfe3df5b\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/4065778\/max-strus\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Max Strus<\/a> underwent surgery to repair a Jones fracture in his left foot and will miss around three to four months, the team announced Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Strus suffered the injury during recent offseason workouts.<\/p>\n<p>Strus, 28, joined the Cavaliers on a four-year, $63 million sign-and-trade two summers ago and has played a pivotal role in Cleveland&#8217;s rise to Eastern Conference contenders over the last two years.<\/p>\n<p>Strus was also hurt to start last year due to a right ankle sprain he suffered during workouts. He missed the first two months of the season before returning to average 9.4 points and 3.2 assists while shooting 38.6% from 3-point range.<\/p>\n<p>His approximate recovery timeline means he&#8217;s set to miss at least the first month of this season, which starts for Cleveland on Oct. 22.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cleveland Cavaliers guard Max Strus underwent surgery to repair a Jones fracture in his left foot and will&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":97954,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":["post-97953","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\/97953","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=97953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97953\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}