{"id":12761,"date":"2025-07-15T23:05:05","date_gmt":"2025-07-15T23:05:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/12761\/"},"modified":"2025-07-15T23:05:05","modified_gmt":"2025-07-15T23:05:05","slug":"76ers-swingman-paul-george-undergoes-left-knee-surgery-after-workout-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/12761\/","title":{"rendered":"76ers swingman Paul George undergoes left knee surgery after workout injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">76ers forward Paul George struggled through an injury-plagued campaign, and now enters the season rehabbing a knee injury.<\/p>\n<p>PHILADELPHIA (AP) \u2014 Philadelphia 76ers wing player Paul George had arthroscopic surgery on his left knee Monday to treat an injury that occurred during a recent workout.<\/p>\n<p>The club said the procedure was performed by Dr. Jonathan L. Glashow at the NYU\u2013Langone Sports Medicine Orthopedic Center.<\/p>\n<p>George\u2019s rehabilitation program is set to begin and he will be re-evaluated prior to the start of training camp, the Sixers said.<\/p>\n<p>The coming NBA season would be George\u2019s 16th since Indiana drafted him 10th overall in 2010 out of Fresno State.<\/p>\n<p>George, who turned 35 on May 2, signed a\u00a0<a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/76ers-nba-paul-george-free-agency-e2f1aaa1f92a6676a80eddcc74bc17de\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">$212 million, four-year contract<\/a>\u00a0in free agency last summer. But his first year in Philly was marred by knee and adductor injuries that resulted in the forward having one of the worst years of his NBA career.<\/p>\n<p>He averaged 16.2 points in just 41 games, easily his lowest scoring average in a full season since he averaged 12.1 points for Indiana in his second NBA season.<\/p>\n<p>The nine-time NBA All-Star has averaged 20.6 points in 908 career games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"76ers forward Paul George struggled through an injury-plagued campaign, and now enters the season rehabbing a knee injury.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12762,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[355,12488,99],"class_list":["post-12761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-nba","tag-paul-george-knee-surgery","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12761\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}