{"id":95904,"date":"2025-08-20T03:58:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T03:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/95904\/"},"modified":"2025-08-20T03:58:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T03:58:07","slug":"wings-center-li-yueru-is-out-for-the-season-after-spraining-a-knee-ligament-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/95904\/","title":{"rendered":"Wings center Li Yueru is out for the season after spraining a knee ligament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ARLINGTON, Texas \u2014 Dallas Wings center Li Yueru will miss the rest of the season after spraining the ACL in her left knee against the Los Angeles Sparks last week.<\/p>\n<p>The team said Tuesday the 26-year-old from China is expected to make a full recovery.<\/p>\n<p>Li was injured in a 97-96 loss to the Sparks on Friday. She averaged 7.4 points and 5.8 rebounds per game in her third WNBA season, which was split between Seattle and Dallas. <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/wnba-storm-yeuru-trade-wings-405d304641469cdb2eb9ee1660deff3e\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Li was traded in June<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The injury to the 6-foot-7 Li is the latest in a series of setbacks for the Wings, who are mired near the bottom of the standings for a second consecutive season. They had the No. 1 pick in the draft this past spring and selected star guard Paige Bueckers.<\/p>\n<p>While Bueckers is a heavy favorite to be named WNBA Rookie of the Year, the Wings entered Tuesday with the third-worst record in the league.<\/p>\n<p>Li\u2019s injury comes with high-scoring guard Arike Ogunbowale sidelined by a right knee injury. The team said Tuesday that Ogunbowale, the 2024 All-Star Game MVP, has tendinitis and will re-evaluated in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ARLINGTON, Texas \u2014 Dallas Wings center Li Yueru will miss the rest of the season after spraining the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":95905,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[99,434],"class_list":["post-95904","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\/95904","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=95904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95904\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}