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<\/p>\nByESPN <\/p>\n
Thursday, October 16, 2025 9:52PM<\/p>\n
Philadelphia 76ers<\/a> star Paul George<\/a> is expected to miss opening night as he recovers from offseason knee surgery, sources told ESPN’s Shams Charania on Thursday.<\/p>\n George is making significant progress but still has checkmarks to hit before he plays in a regular-season game, sources said. He is expected to debut shortly into the regular season.<\/p>\n The nine-time NBA All-Star underwent an arthroscopic procedure on his left knee in July after suffering an injury during a workout and was expected to be reevaluated in September. He played in just 41 games last season after signing a four-year, $212 million maximum contract with Philadelphia in the summer of 2024.<\/p>\n Georgedealt with a number of ailments last season before receiving injections in his left adductor muscle and left knee and shutting down his campaign in March.<\/p>\n The 6-foot-8 forward averaged 16.2 points last season, his fewest since a six-game 2014-15 campaign. George has played more than 56 games in a season just once since 2018-19.<\/p>\n Copyright \u00a9 2025 ESPN Internet Ventures. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ByESPN Thursday, October 16, 2025 9:52PM Philadelphia 76ers star Paul George is expected to miss opening night as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5185,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[4796,1421,4795,4794,139,69,1002,71,70],"class_list":["post-5184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-4796","tag-espn","tag-george-paul","tag-nba","tag-news","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-76ers","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5184\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}