{"id":172523,"date":"2025-09-21T20:34:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T20:34:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/172523\/"},"modified":"2025-09-21T20:34:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T20:34:06","slug":"nate-oats-announces-injury-for-star-alabama-basketball-guard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/172523\/","title":{"rendered":"Nate Oats announces injury for star Alabama basketball guard"},"content":{"rendered":"

Alabama basketball<\/a> anticipates being without one of its incoming star guards to start the 2025-26 season.<\/p>\n

The University of Alabama<\/a>\u2019s NIL collective announced on the morning of Sunday, Sept. 21 that Miami sophomore transfer Jalil Bethea<\/a> suffered an injury and has no timetable to return, according to Crimson Tide coach Nate Oats.<\/p>\n

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\u201cJalil Bethea injured his left foot during practice this week, which required surgery to repair. The procedure was performed by Dr. Norman Waldrop with Andrews Sports Medicine on Friday, Sept. 19th in Birmingham,\u201d Oats said.<\/p>\n

Oats added that the team doesn\u2019t expect the injury is \u201cseason ending\u201d and is counting on a \u201creturn this year.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bethea, an 5-star prospect, arrived in Tuscaloosa in April. In 31 games with Miami, he averaged 7.1 points and 2.1 rebounds.<\/p>\n

Alabama starts the preseason on October 16 against Florida State at the Ballin\u2019 in Boutwell exhibition in Birmingham.<\/p>\n

Emilee Smarr covers Alabama basketball and Crimson Tide athletics for the Tuscaloosa News. She can be reached via email at esmarr@gannett.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alabama basketball anticipates being without one of its incoming star guards to start the 2025-26 season. The University…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":172524,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[103098,4650,5183,103097,402,1976,2662,6381,13324,622,15995,6673,2821,398,400,401,34645,3,13470,34647,7702,90518,43301,13690,99,2415,103096],"class_list":["post-172523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaa-basketball","tag-al-sharing-crimson-tide","tag-al","tag-alabama","tag-alabama-crimson-tide-mens-basketball","tag-basketball","tag-college","tag-college-sports","tag-conference","tag-crimson","tag-fl","tag-hub","tag-mens","tag-miami","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-basketball","tag-ncaabasketball","tag-negative","tag-news","tag-overall","tag-overall-negative","tag-sec","tag-sec-conference-mens-basketball","tag-sec-hub","tag-sharing","tag-sports","tag-sports-news","tag-tide"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172523","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=172523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172523\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/172524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}