{"id":559133,"date":"2026-04-01T23:38:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T23:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/559133\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T23:38:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T23:38:11","slug":"storms-nika-muhl-torn-acl-to-miss-2nd-straight-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/559133\/","title":{"rendered":"Storm&#8217;s Nika M\u00fchl (torn ACL) to miss 2nd straight season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SEATTLE &#8212; <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"2da9bce5-382a-83d9-132c-b6c59d0e8eb9\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/wnba\/team\/_\/name\/sea\/seattle-storm\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Seattle Storm<\/a> point guard <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/wnba\/player\/_\/id\/4433468\/nika-muhl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Nika M\u00fchl<\/a> will miss her second straight WNBA season because of a knee injury, this time after tearing her right ACL during a March 11 game for Croatia in EuroBasket qualifying.<\/p>\n<p>The team said Wednesday that the 24-year-old M\u00fchl had surgery Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>M\u00fchl missed the 2025 WNBA season after tearing her left ACL while playing overseas for the Turkish club Besiktas in the FIBA SuperCup.<\/p>\n<p>The former UConn player has appeared in only 16 games in three seasons with the Storm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SEATTLE &#8212; Seattle Storm point guard Nika M\u00fchl will miss her second straight WNBA season because of a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":559134,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[99,434],"class_list":["post-559133","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\/559133","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=559133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559133\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/559134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=559133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=559133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=559133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}