{"id":124037,"date":"2026-02-05T17:24:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T17:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/124037\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T17:24:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T17:24:08","slug":"haywood-highsmith-let-go-by-brooklyn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/124037\/","title":{"rendered":"Haywood Highsmith: Let go by Brooklyn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"VideoPlayer-backgroundImage\" alt=\"default-cbs-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/video-slate.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The Nets waived <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/nba\/players\/3076995\/highsmith\/fantasy\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Highsmith<\/a> (knee) on Thursday, Michael Scotto of USA Today reports.<\/p>\n<p>Highsmith underwent surgery in August to repair a meniscal tear in his right knee and was traded from Miami to Brooklyn shortly thereafter. However, the 29-year-old forward never saw the court for Brooklyn, and it&#8217;s unclear how far he has progressed in his recovery. Regardless, he&#8217;ll now be able to explore other opportunities.<\/p>\n<p>        More News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Nets waived Highsmith (knee) on Thursday, Michael Scotto of USA Today reports. Highsmith underwent surgery in August&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":122257,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,354,4608,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-124037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-fantasy-basketball","tag-haywood-highsmith","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124037\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}