{"id":459438,"date":"2026-02-10T04:09:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T04:09:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/459438\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T04:09:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T04:09:15","slug":"fevers-aari-mcdonald-ruled-out-for-rest-of-unrivaled-season-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/459438\/","title":{"rendered":"Fever&#8217;s Aari McDonald ruled out for rest of Unrivaled season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-player-guid=\"a50ad2c4-d114-e54b-0cb0-3936da6c79e1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/wnba\/player\/_\/id\/4066553\/aari-mcdonald\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Aari McDonald<\/a> has been ruled out for the remainder of the Unrivaled season after suffering a right lower extremity injury, the 3-on-3 league announced Monday.<\/p>\n<p>McDonald saw very limited playing time this season, appearing in only one game for the Breeze on Thursday after working her way back from a foot injury she suffered during the WNBA season with the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"bfef1bdd-c2d1-310d-dd9f-645b90575da9\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/wnba\/team\/_\/name\/ind\/indiana-fever\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Indiana Fever<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Fever ruled out McDonald for the WNBA season in August because of a broken bone in her right foot. She averaged 9.8 points, 2.4 rebounds and 4.7 assists in 20 games.<\/p>\n<p>Before her Unrivaled game Thursday, McDonald posted on social media: &#8220;Today is my first time playing in almost 5 months.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>McDonald was expected to be a key playmaker for the Breeze, but now her absence leaves the team without a primary backup ball handler behind <a data-player-guid=\"5d79683b-b6b8-3474-a96f-617daff9251e\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/wnba\/player\/_\/id\/4433730\/paige-bueckers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Paige Bueckers<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aari McDonald has been ruled out for the remainder of the Unrivaled season after suffering a right lower&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":459241,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[99,434],"class_list":["post-459438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-sports","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459438","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=459438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459438\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/459241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=459438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=459438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=459438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}