{"id":139056,"date":"2025-09-12T17:16:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T17:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/139056\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T17:16:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T17:16:07","slug":"sources-wizards-coulibaly-thumb-has-surgery-for-ligament-tear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/139056\/","title":{"rendered":"Sources &#8212; Wizards&#8217; Coulibaly (thumb) has surgery for ligament tear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-clubhouse-guid=\"64d73af6-b8ec-e213-87e8-a4eab3a692e7\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/wsh\/washington-wizards\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Washington Wizards<\/a> guard <a data-player-guid=\"9395e9fe-44e8-3bae-9648-7c07516b8370\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/5104155\/bilal-coulibaly\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bilal Coulibaly<\/a> underwent surgery Friday to repair a ligament tear in his right thumb and is likely to miss time into the regular season, sources tell ESPN.<\/p>\n<p>Coulibaly sustained the injury with the French national team during FIBA EuroBasket play.<\/p>\n<p>Coulibaly started 59 games for the Wizards last season averaging 12.3 points, 5 rebounds and 3.4 assists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Washington Wizards guard Bilal Coulibaly underwent surgery Friday to repair a ligament tear in his right thumb and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":139057,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-139056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139056","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=139056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139056\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}