{"id":438369,"date":"2025-04-17T07:39:14","date_gmt":"2025-04-17T05:39:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=438369"},"modified":"2025-04-17T07:39:14","modified_gmt":"2025-04-17T05:39:14","slug":"optimism-kyrie-irving-could-return-from-acl-tear-by-january","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/optimism-kyrie-irving-could-return-from-acl-tear-by-january\/","title":{"rendered":"Optimism Kyrie Irving could return from ACL tear by January"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\" data-start=\"1093\" data-end=\"1580\">According to <strong data-start=\"1119\" data-end=\"1127\">ESPN<\/strong>, there&#8217;s growing optimism <strong data-start=\"1154\" data-end=\"1170\">Kyrie Irving<\/strong> will return from his ACL injury by <strong data-start=\"1206\" data-end=\"1222\">January 2026<\/strong>. The <strong data-start=\"1228\" data-end=\"1248\">Dallas Mavericks<\/strong> star underwent surgery on March 26 and is progressing well.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"1093\" data-end=\"1580\">Irving, 33, has a <strong data-start=\"1327\" data-end=\"1356\">$43 million player option<\/strong> for next season, but the team may offer a new three-year contract. Before the injury, he was averaging <strong data-start=\"1460\" data-end=\"1475\">24.7 points<\/strong>, and was the only player shooting 40% from three and 90% from the line while scoring over 20 per game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mavericks expect him back for most of the 2025-26 season and are eyeing a new three-year deal<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":371868,"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":[179],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-438369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","typology-injury"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/02\/Dallas-Mavericks.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438369","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=438369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438369\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/371868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438369"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=438369"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=438369"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=438369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}