{"id":327857,"date":"2023-04-25T08:55:13","date_gmt":"2023-04-25T06:55:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=327857"},"modified":"2023-04-25T08:55:13","modified_gmt":"2023-04-25T06:55:13","slug":"kings-deaaron-fox-fractures-index-finger-doubtful-for-game-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/kings-deaaron-fox-fractures-index-finger-doubtful-for-game-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Kings&#8217; De&#8217;Aaron Fox fractures index finger, doubtful for Game 5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-195 p Component-p-0-2-184\">Sacramento star guard De\u2019Aaron Fox broke a finger on his shooting hand and is doubtful to play in Game 5 of the Kings\u2019\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/playoffs\/2023\/west-first-round-3\">first-round series<\/a>\u00a0against the Golden State Warriors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-195 p Component-p-0-2-184\">The Kings said Monday night that X-rays revealed an avulsion fracture on Fox\u2019s left index finger.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-195 p Component-p-0-2-184\">Fox remained in the game after the injury and even made a key 3-pointer in the closing minute before Sacramento\u00a0<a class=\"paragraph-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/game\/sac-vs-gsw-0042200164\">lost 126-125<\/a>. Fox passed out of a double team on the final possession and the Kings lost when Harrison Barnes missed a 3-pointer at the buzzer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-195 p Component-p-0-2-184\">The series is tied at two games apiece headed into Game 5 in Sacramento on Wednesday night (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/game\/gsw-vs-sac-0042200165\"><strong>10 ET, TNT<\/strong><\/a>).<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-195 p Component-p-0-2-184\">Fox has emerged as a star in his first trip to the postseason, averaging 31.5 points, seven assists and six rebounds through six games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-195 p Component-p-0-2-184\">His 38 points in a Game 1 win were tied for the second most for a player in his postseason debut and his 126 points so far are tied for the sixth most for any player in his first four career playoff games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-195 p Component-p-0-2-184\">Fox had 38 points, nine rebounds and five assists in the Game 4 loss.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">This appears to be the play that De&#8217;Aaron Fox fractured his left index finger in the middle of the fourth quarter yesterday. On a floater after the whistle. Looks like it clips Kevon Looney&#8217;s hand. First time you see him clutch at it. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0Ip5YWbw8g\">pic.twitter.com\/0Ip5YWbw8g<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Anthony Slater (@anthonyVslater) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/anthonyVslater\/status\/1650583834726113281?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 24, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sacramento&#8217;s All-Star guard sustained the avulsion fracture his left index finger during the 4th quarter on Sunday<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":206118,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[399],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[15727,187],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-327857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","typology-press-release-en","typology-video"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/03\/Kings-Logo.jpeg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=327857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327857\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327857"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=327857"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=327857"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=327857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}