{"id":627979,"date":"2026-05-07T02:04:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T02:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/627979\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T02:04:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T02:04:08","slug":"hornets-guard-brandon-miller-out-indefinitely-after-surgery-to-address-left-shoulder-instability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/627979\/","title":{"rendered":"Hornets guard Brandon Miller out indefinitely after surgery to address left shoulder instability"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) \u2014 Charlotte Hornets guard Brandon Miller underwent surgery on Wednesday to address left shoulder instability.<\/p>\n<p>Miller will be out indefinitely and additional updates on his status will be provided as appropriate, but the team said he is expected to make a full recovery.<\/p>\n<p>He missed 13 consecutive games beginning in late October after sustaining a left shoulder subluxation injury. He played the remainder of the season with a wrap around the shoulder.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the injury, Miller played in 65 games and averaged a team-leading 20.2 points as well as 4.9 rebounds, 3.3 assists and 1.0 steals in 30.3 minutes per game. He shot a career-high 38.3% from 3-point range and made 204 3-pointers.<\/p>\n<p>The No. 2 overall pick in 2023 also ranked ninth in the NBA by hitting 89.2% of his free throws.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) \u2014 Charlotte Hornets guard Brandon Miller underwent surgery on Wednesday to address left shoulder instability.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":627980,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[74193,271670,355,74976,74973,246063,99],"class_list":["post-627979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-brandon-miller","tag-hornets-brandon-miller-surgery-shoulder","tag-nba","tag-package-100502-member-choice-sports-option","tag-product-30599-ap-sports-news-s-wire-only","tag-product-40804-ap-north-carolina-sports-only","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627979","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=627979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627979\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/627980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=627979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=627979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=627979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}