{"id":897743,"date":"2026-10-28T17:04:14","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T17:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/897743\/"},"modified":"2026-10-28T17:04:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T17:04:14","slug":"aj-dybantsa-available-to-make-nba-debut-tonight-vs-cavaliers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/897743\/","title":{"rendered":"AJ Dybantsa available to make NBA debut tonight vs. Cavaliers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2408227\" class=\"size-large wp-image-2408227\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/GettyImages-2299039791-scaled-e1793205856446-1568x883.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1568\" height=\"883\"  \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2408227\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">AJ Dybantsa has been upgraded to Available for Wednesday\u2019s game against the Cavaliers.<\/p>\n<p>Washington Wizards rookie and No. 1 overall pick AJ Dybantsa is ready to make his NBA debut against the Cleveland Cavaliers tonight (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/game\/was-vs-cle-0022600133\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">7 ET, League Pass<\/a>) after missing the first four games of the season due to a sprained ankle.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">No more waiting \u231b\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/AJ_Dybantsa?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">@AJ_Dybantsa<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/XCZ65MiPho\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/XCZ65MiPho<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Washington Wizards (@WashWizards) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/WashWizards\/status\/2115477982383055339?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">October 28, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dybantsa is expected to start alongside Trae Young, Anthony Davis, Alex Sarr and Kyshawn George for the new-look Wizards, who have started the season 2-2.<\/p>\n<p>NBA.com will have more on this story as it develops.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AJ Dybantsa has been upgraded to Available for Wednesday\u2019s game against the Cavaliers. Washington Wizards rookie and No.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":897744,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[376394,376393,376395,376396,355,99],"class_list":["post-897743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-aj-dybantsa-debut","tag-aj-dybantsa-return","tag-dybantsa","tag-dybantsa-injury","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897743","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=897743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897743\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/897744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=897743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=897743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=897743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}