{"id":123216,"date":"2025-09-06T01:57:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T01:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/123216\/"},"modified":"2025-09-06T01:57:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T01:57:08","slug":"spurs-rookie-no-2-overall-pick-dylan-harper-undergoes-thumb-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/123216\/","title":{"rendered":"Spurs rookie, No. 2 overall pick Dylan Harper undergoes thumb surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1817762\" class=\"wp-image-1817762 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/dylan-harper-drives-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\"  \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-1817762\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dylan Harper may return by the start of the regular season on Oct. 22.<\/p>\n<p>SAN ANTONIO (AP) \u2014 San Antonio rookie Dylan Harper had surgery to repair a partially torn collateral ligament in his left thumb, an injury suffered Wednesday in a preseason workout.<\/p>\n<p>By electing to have the surgery quickly, Harper may be able to recover in time for the start of the regular season. The Spurs open their schedule against Dallas on Oct. 22.<\/p>\n<p>Harper, the No. 2 pick in this year\u2019s draft, averaged 16 points in two games at the Las Vegas Summer League for the Spurs in July. He averaged 19.4 points in his lone collegiate season at Rutgers before entering the draft, and is expected to join the last two NBA rookies of the year \u2014 Victor Wembanyama and Stephon Castle \u2014 in the San Antonio rotation this season.<\/p>\n<p>The Spurs said Harper\u2019s condition would be updated as appropriate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dylan Harper may return by the start of the regular season on Oct. 22. SAN ANTONIO (AP) \u2014&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":123217,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,68163,459,82],"class_list":["post-123216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-dylan-harper-thumb-surgery","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123216\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}