{"id":264319,"date":"2025-11-05T23:14:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T23:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/264319\/"},"modified":"2025-11-05T23:14:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T23:14:08","slug":"cavaliers-garland-expected-to-return-against-76ers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/264319\/","title":{"rendered":"Cavaliers&#8217; Garland expected to return against 76ers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All-star guard <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/basketball\/nba\/players\/darius-garland\/b79b88e1-35ef-4947-8a61-f6ec631a1e15\" class=\"sn-player-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-player=\"b79b88e1-35ef-4947-8a61-f6ec631a1e15\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Darius Garland<\/a> is expected to make his season debut against the Philadelphia 76ers on Wednesday, head coach Kenny Atkinson <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/AmicoHoops\/status\/1986197223097749922\" rel=\"nofollow\">told reporters<\/a> hours before the game. <\/p>\n<p>Garland had surgery on a big toe injury in June after it held him out for the final two games of the regular season and for four playoff games.<\/p>\n<p>The 25-year-old averaged 20.6 points, 6.7 assists and 2.9 rebounds and made his second all-star team last season.<\/p>\n<p>Cleveland led the Eastern Conference with a 64-18 record in 2024-25, but was eliminated by the Indiana Pacers in five games in Round 2.<\/p>\n<p>Former all-star centre Jarrett Allen is also set to return, according to Atkinson, after missing two games with a non-displaced finger fracture he sustained against the Boston Celtics on Oct. 29.<\/p>\n<p>Guard is also amongst the injured Cavaliers ready to return after missing Clevelands last three games with a hip injury. <\/p>\n<p>Despite having missed the third-most player games to injury this season, the Cavaliers have still managed to get out to a 4-3 start. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"All-star guard Darius Garland is expected to make his season debut against the Philadelphia 76ers on Wednesday, head&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":264320,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-264319","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264319","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=264319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264319\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}