{"id":940686,"date":"2026-10-21T00:48:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-21T00:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/940686\/"},"modified":"2026-10-21T00:48:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-21T00:48:11","slug":"top-draft-pick-aj-dybantsa-to-miss-the-season-opener-for-washington-wizards-with-a-sprained-ankle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/940686\/","title":{"rendered":"Top draft pick AJ Dybantsa to miss the season opener for Washington Wizards with a sprained ankle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 Top draft pick AJ Dybantsa will miss the season opener for the Washington Wizards on Wednesday night with a sprained ankle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Coach Brian Keefe said Tuesday that Dybantsa would not play against the Milwaukee Bucks. The Wizards took him No. 1 out of BYU in this year\u2019s draft.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Dybantsa is one of the reasons hopes are higher in Washington than in the recent past. The Wizards also added veterans Trae Young and Anthony Davis last season, but Davis didn\u2019t play at all in a Washington uniform. He\u2019s back now.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Dybantsa\u2019s debut will have to wait. The Wizards are also home Friday night against Toronto.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cHe\u2019s going to be day to day,\u201d Keefe said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"> See AP\u2019s full NBA coverage here <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 Top draft pick AJ Dybantsa will miss the season opener for the Washington Wizards on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":940687,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-940686","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\/940686","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=940686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940686\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/940687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=940686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=940686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=940686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}