{"id":25111,"date":"2025-07-26T08:45:14","date_gmt":"2025-07-26T08:45:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/25111\/"},"modified":"2025-07-26T08:45:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-26T08:45:14","slug":"valkyries-star-kayla-thornton-knee-surgery-done-for-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/25111\/","title":{"rendered":"Valkyries star Kayla Thornton (knee surgery) done for season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-clubhouse-guid=\"170598de-f63a-3497-a04d-1fc514508f56\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/wnba\/team\/_\/name\/gs\/golden-state-valkyries\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Golden State Valkyries<\/a> forward <a data-player-guid=\"3b2b97b8-5d06-3965-8e22-0e04b6b268fc\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/wnba\/player\/_\/id\/2529622\/kayla-thornton\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kayla Thornton<\/a> will miss the remainder of the WNBA season after undergoing knee surgery, the team announced Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Thornton injured her right knee in practice earlier in the week &#8212; the first week coming out of the All-Star break, where Thornton made her first All-Star appearance.<\/p>\n<p>The surgery was considered successful, the Valkyries said.<\/p>\n<p>Editor&#8217;s Picks<a name=\"&amp;lpos=story:editorspicks:inline:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/wnba\/story\/_\/id\/45801015\/wnba-2025-golden-state-valkyries-expansion-franchise-inaugural-season-ballhalla\" class=\"img-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/r1522438_1296x1296_1-1.jpg&#038;w=130&#038;h=130&#038;scale=crop&#038;location=center.jpeg\" width=\"65\" height=\"65\"\/><\/a><a name=\"&amp;lpos=story:editorspicks:inline:2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/wnba\/story\/_\/id\/45789365\/wnba-2025-power-rankings-biggest-questions-all-star-break\" class=\"img-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/r1521812_1296x1296_1-1.jpg&#038;w=130&#038;h=130&#038;scale=crop&#038;location=center.jpeg\" width=\"65\" height=\"65\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>1 Related<\/p>\n<p>Before the surgery, Thornton was in the midst of a career season, leading the team in points (14.0), rebounds (7.0) and steals (1.3) per game.<\/p>\n<p>Thornton was a reserve in this year&#8217;s All-Star Game on Team Clark and finished with 15 points in 20 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Losing Thornton is a massive blow to the expansion franchise, as she has emerged as the leading voice in the Valkyries&#8217; locker room as well as their go-to player on the court. She was selected by Golden State in the expansion draft in December after winning a title with the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"ad8ccde6-59b3-fbe6-2faf-a835fa224ca1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/wnba\/team\/_\/name\/ny\/new-york-liberty\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New York Liberty<\/a> in 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Golden State Valkyries forward Kayla Thornton will miss the remainder of the WNBA season after undergoing knee surgery,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25112,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[49,48,82,630],"class_list":["post-25111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25111","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=25111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25111\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}