{"id":415988,"date":"2026-01-19T02:00:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T02:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/415988\/"},"modified":"2026-01-19T02:00:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T02:00:07","slug":"cavaliers-garland-out-at-least-a-week-with-sprained-toe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/415988\/","title":{"rendered":"Cavaliers&#8217; Garland out at least a week with sprained toe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CLEVELAND (AP) \u2014 Cavaliers guard Darius Garland will be sidelined for at least one week due to a sprained right great toe.<\/p>\n<p>Garland <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/cleveland-cavaliers-garland-abd5a47937cc41262fa8c820c8b7952c\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">suffered the injury on Jan. 14<\/a> at Philadelphia and missed <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/cavaliers-76ers-score-12ba7ad2d3836bdb2cf45ccc976748e4\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Friday\u2019s game against the 76ers<\/a>. The Cavaliers said further evaluation and imaging on Saturday revealed a Grade 1 sprain. The seventh-year guard will be reevaluated in seven to 10 days as he undergoes treatment.<\/p>\n<p>The two-time All-Star has missed 16 games this season due to a nagging injury to his left great toe, <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/cavaliers-garland-pacers-11a808dd5dba22856c06ad391f20656e\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">which he struggled with<\/a> during the closing month of last season and the playoffs. Garland <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/cavaliers-darius-garland-surgery-c10e0a26a3acd2b6e6fc74ffacfbd3ad\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">had surgery on the toe<\/a> during the offseason.<\/p>\n<p>Garland is averaging 20.2 points and 7.4 assists over this last 16 games. He was shooting 50.4% from the floor and made 42 of 100 3-pointers.<\/p>\n<p>The Cavaliers have been plagued by injuries all season. After having the best record in the Eastern Conference last season, they are 24-19 and fifth in the East going into Monday afternoon\u2019s game against the defending NBA champion Oklahoma City Thunder.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP NBA: <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nba\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/nba<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CLEVELAND (AP) \u2014 Cavaliers guard Darius Garland will be sidelined for at least one week due to a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":415989,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[8174,27494,18318,355,1063,12303,6454,9601,9600,6402,2085,2113,99],"class_list":["post-415988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-cleveland-cavaliers","tag-darius-garland","tag-medical-diagnostic-technology","tag-nba","tag-nba-basketball","tag-oh-state-wire","tag-ohio","tag-ok-state-wire","tag-oklahoma","tag-oklahoma-city-thunder","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-76ers","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415988","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=415988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415988\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/415989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=415988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}