{"id":530327,"date":"2026-07-07T23:40:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T23:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/530327\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T23:40:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T23:40:13","slug":"jalen-brunson-wrist-undergoes-surgery-expected-back-on-court-this-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/530327\/","title":{"rendered":"Jalen Brunson (wrist) undergoes surgery, expected back on court this summer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2262277\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2262277\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/GettyImages_jalenbrunson_trophies.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1733\" height=\"1080\"  \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2262277\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jalen Brunson is expected to be back on the court for the Knicks\u2019 defense of their title.<\/p>\n<p>NEW YORK \u2014 Jalen Brunson has undergone left wrist surgery and is expected to be back on the court when the New York Knicks begin defense of their NBA title, a person with knowledge of the details said Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/news\/jalen-brunson-wins-bill-russell-trophy-as-2026-nba-finals-mvp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0NBA Finals MVP<\/a>\u00a0is expected to resume basketball activities later this summer, the person told The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because there was no announcement about Brunson\u2019s procedure.<\/p>\n<p>Brunson\u2019s surgery was first reported by SNY.<\/p>\n<p>Brunson, who is left-handed, didn\u2019t let the wrist injury slow him down on the Knicks\u2019 run to their first championship since 1973.<\/p>\n<p>He\u00a0scored 45 points\u00a0when the Knicks won the title in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/news\/live-updates-2026-nba-finals-game-5-knicks-seek-first-title-since-1973\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Game 5<\/a> in San Antonio, after finishing with 36 when they made a\u00a0record-setting comeback from a 29-point deficit\u00a0in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/news\/4-takeaways-spurs-knicks-game-4\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Game 4. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>The point guard averaged 32.6 points in the Finals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jalen Brunson is expected to be back on the court for the Knicks\u2019 defense of their title. NEW&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":530328,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,92135,166979,105,13583,242103],"class_list":["post-530327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-jalen-brunson","tag-knicks","tag-sports","tag-surgery","tag-wrist"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=530327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530327\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/530328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=530327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=530327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=530327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}