{"id":738981,"date":"2026-06-15T20:33:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T20:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/738981\/"},"modified":"2026-06-15T20:33:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T20:33:09","slug":"wizards-alex-sarr-undergoes-surgery-to-repair-fractured-foot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/738981\/","title":{"rendered":"Wizards&#8217; Alex Sarr undergoes surgery to repair fractured foot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sarr sustained the injury during an off-season workout last week. The centre is expected to recover in time for the start of the 2026-27 NBA season.<\/p>\n<p>Sarr, 21, is coming off a sophomore season where he was plagued by injuries, appearing in only 48 games.<\/p>\n<p>He averaged 16.3 points, 7.4 rebounds and 2.7 assists in that timeframe for a Wizards team that finished last in the Eastern Conference.<\/p>\n<p>Sarr was the second-overall draft pick for the Wizards in the 2024 draft, and finished fourth in rookie of the year voting following the 2024-25 season.<\/p>\n<p>The Wizards are set to have the first-overall pick in the upcoming 2026 NBA draft on June 23.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sarr sustained the injury during an off-season workout last week. The centre is expected to recover in time&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":738982,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-738981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738981","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=738981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738981\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/738982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=738981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=738981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=738981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}