{"id":509837,"date":"2026-03-07T19:59:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T19:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/509837\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T19:59:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T19:59:09","slug":"celtics-vucevic-has-surgery-on-broken-finger-will-miss-at-least-three-weeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/509837\/","title":{"rendered":"Celtics&#8217; Vucevic has surgery on broken finger, will miss at least three weeks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BOSTON \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/boston-celtics\/\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-team=\"boston-celtics\" data-league=\"nba\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Boston Celtics<\/a> center Nikola Vucevic had surgery to stabilize his broken right ring finger on Saturday and won&#8217;t be reevaluated for at least three weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Vucevic was injured in the first quarter of Friday night&#8217;s game against Dallas when Mavericks forward Khris Middleton swiped at the ball. He left the game, which Boston won 120-100 in Jayson Tatum&#8217;s return from an Achilles tendon injury, and did not return.<\/p>\n<p>The Celtics said on Saturday that Vucevic will be reevaluated in 3-4 weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Vucevic was acquired from the Chicago Bulls last month at the trade deadline to give the Celtics depth at big man. The 35-year-old Montenegrin averaged 10.4 points and 21.7 minutes in 12 games with Boston.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BOSTON \u2014 Boston Celtics center Nikola Vucevic had surgery to stabilize his broken right ring finger on Saturday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":509838,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[355,99],"class_list":["post-509837","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\/509837","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=509837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509837\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/509838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=509837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=509837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=509837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}