{"id":508011,"date":"2026-03-06T21:51:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T21:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/508011\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T21:51:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T21:51:09","slug":"clippers-yanic-konan-niederhauser-tears-ligament-out-for-season-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/508011\/","title":{"rendered":"Clippers&#8217; Yanic Konan Niederhauser tears ligament, out for season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>INGLEWOOD, Calif. &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/5108024\/yanic-konan-niederhauser\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Yanic Konan Niederhauser<\/a> tore a ligament in his right foot, putting an early end to his rookie season with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/lac\/la-clippers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">LA Clippers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The 7-foot Swiss center was injured Wednesday night in a 130-107 win against the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/ind\/indiana-pacers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Indiana Pacers<\/a>. Niederhauser was diagnosed with a Lisfranc injury in his right foot and will require surgery, the team said. The injury involves damage to the ligaments or bones in the midfoot.<\/p>\n<p>Niederhauser averaged 4.3 points and 2.9 rebounds in 41 games. After being selected 30th in last year&#8217;s NBA draft, he began the season in the G League, but after the Clippers traded <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/4017837\/ivica-zubac\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ivica Zubac<\/a> to the Pacers last month, he was earning more minutes.<\/p>\n<p>In his last five games, Niederhauser was shooting 52% from the floor and averaging 8.2 points and 6.2 rebounds while playing 18 minutes per game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"INGLEWOOD, Calif. &#8212; Yanic Konan Niederhauser tore a ligament in his right foot, putting an early end to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":238659,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[355,99],"class_list":["post-508011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508011","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=508011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508011\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=508011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=508011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=508011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}