{"id":274777,"date":"2025-11-10T19:13:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T19:13:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/274777\/"},"modified":"2025-11-10T19:13:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T19:13:13","slug":"bucks-forward-taurean-prince-out-indefinitely-with-herniated-disk-in-his-neck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/274777\/","title":{"rendered":"Bucks forward Taurean Prince out indefinitely with herniated disk in his neck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prince already had missed the Bucks\u2019 last two games. The Bucks announced Monday that Prince underwent an MRI last week that revealed the herniated disk.<\/p>\n<p>Bucks officials didn\u2019t put a timeline on Prince\u2019s return and said the team\u2019s medical staff and external specialists would determine his best treatment plan.<\/p>\n<p>Prince, 31, has averaged 6.1 points, 1.6 rebounds, 1.0 assist and 21.1 minutes in eight games off the bench this season. He is shooting 42.9 per cent from three-point range and has made 1.5 three-pointers per game.<\/p>\n<p>He played 80 games for the Bucks last season, including 73 starts. Prince averaged 8.2 points, 3.6 rebounds, 1.9 assists and 27.1 minutes. He shot 43.9 per cent from three-point range and made 1.8 three-pointers per game that season.<\/p>\n<p>The Bucks also are playing without guard\u00a0Kevin Porter Jr.<\/p>\n<p>Porter\u00a0sprained his left ankle\u00a0in the first quarter of the Bucks\u2019 season opener, then hurt his right knee during on-court training while working his way back from the ankle injury.<\/p>\n<p>Porter underwent meniscus surgery Nov. 3 on the knee injury. The Bucks announced Oct. 31 that he would likely miss about a month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Prince already had missed the Bucks\u2019 last two games. The Bucks announced Monday that Prince underwent an MRI&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":274778,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-274777","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\/274777","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=274777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274777\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/274778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}