{"id":458403,"date":"2026-02-06T21:36:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T21:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/458403\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T21:36:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T21:36:07","slug":"4-time-all-star-brionna-jones-injures-meniscus-playing-overseas-wkzo-everything-kalamazoo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/458403\/","title":{"rendered":"4-time All-Star Brionna Jones injures meniscus playing overseas | WKZO | Everything Kalamazoo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Four-time WNBA All-Star forward Brionna Jones sustained a torn meniscus last week while \u200dplaying overseas but her agent told ESPN she is expected to return in time for the WNBA season.<\/p>\n<p>Agent Boris Lelchitski \u200calso told the network \u200cthat Jones will undergo surgery this weekend in the United States and miss the remainder of the season \u200bwith the Czech-based club USK Praha.<\/p>\n<p>Jones, 30, averaged \u200d12.8 points and \u200b7.3 rebounds in 44 \u200bgames (all starts) last season with the \u200dAtlanta Dream. She is a free agent this offseason.<\/p>\n<p>Jones spent her previous eight seasons with the Connecticut Sun, earning \u200dMost Improved Player and Sixth Player of the Year honors in 2021 \u200dand \u200d2022, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>She has averaged \u200b10.5 points and 5.1 \u200bboards \u2060in 263 career games (157 \u200cstarts) with the Sun and Dream since being selected by Connecticut with the eighth overall pick of the 2017 WNBA Draft.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013Field \u2060Level Media<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Four-time WNBA All-Star forward Brionna Jones sustained a torn meniscus last week while \u200dplaying overseas but her agent&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":458404,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[49,48,82,630],"class_list":["post-458403","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\/458403","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=458403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458403\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/458404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=458403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}