{"id":178226,"date":"2025-09-29T17:55:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T17:55:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/178226\/"},"modified":"2025-09-29T17:55:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T17:55:13","slug":"red-panda-eyes-2025-26-return-after-having-surgery-on-injury-from-fall-at-wnba-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/178226\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Panda Eyes 2025-26 Return After Having Surgery on Injury from Fall at WNBA Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Legendary performer Red Panda confirmed she&#8217;s aiming to return to her usual duties during the 2025-26 basketball season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Pat Figley, the agent for Rong Niu, provided an update Sunday on Niu&#8217;s recovery from a wrist injury.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">&#8220;We are sending out this note to thank everyone for their heartfelt wishes to Red Panda for a speedy recovery from her fall,&#8221; Figley said, per ESPN&#8217;s <a class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-inherit MuiLink-root MuiLink-underlineAlways MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__ui__link__medium_strong css-lu48cp\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/story\/_\/id\/46415479\/red-panda-healing-fall-ready-return-season\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Myron Medcalf<\/a>. &#8220;It was a very serious injury and she did require surgery. She appreciated all the sincere follow-up. It was amazing and very touching. She really appreciates all of the support. She is recovering well and is practicing. She is looking forward to performing this season.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Red Panda has built a cult following over the years through her impressive feats of balance. Her signature act is riding a large unicycle while flipping bowls onto her head.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">The veteran acrobat has been sidelined ever since <a class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-inherit MuiLink-root MuiLink-underlineAlways MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__ui__link__medium_strong css-lu48cp\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/wnba\/story\/_\/id\/45649875\/red-panda-broken-wrist-hospital-fall\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">fracturing her left wrist<\/a> during the WNBA Commissioner&#8217;s Cup final in May.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Rest assured, Red Panda will be back on the hardwood before too long, though Figley didn&#8217;t specify when she might be back to 100 percent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Legendary performer Red Panda confirmed she&#8217;s aiming to return to her usual duties during the 2025-26 basketball season.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":178227,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[49,48,82,630],"class_list":{"0":"post-178226","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wnba","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-wnba"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178226","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=178226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178226\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}