{"id":451422,"date":"2025-07-15T08:21:48","date_gmt":"2025-07-15T06:21:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=451422"},"modified":"2025-07-15T08:21:48","modified_gmt":"2025-07-15T06:21:48","slug":"paul-george-undergoes-knee-surgery-status-for-season-opener-uncertain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/paul-george-undergoes-knee-surgery-status-for-season-opener-uncertain\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul George undergoes knee surgery, status for season opener uncertain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1314\" data-end=\"1509\"><strong data-start=\"1329\" data-end=\"1344\">Paul George<\/strong> has undergone <strong data-start=\"1359\" data-end=\"1383\">arthroscopic surgery<\/strong> on his left knee after re-injuring it during a summer workout. He played just <strong data-start=\"1462\" data-end=\"1474\">41 games<\/strong> last season due to similar issues.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1511\" data-end=\"1692\">The <strong data-start=\"1515\" data-end=\"1537\">Philadelphia 76ers<\/strong> confirmed the procedure was successful, but George\u2019s return will be assessed only in <strong data-start=\"1623\" data-end=\"1641\">late September<\/strong>, putting his availability for the opener in doubt.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1694\" data-end=\"1884\">Now in year two of a <strong data-start=\"1715\" data-end=\"1733\">$212M contract<\/strong>, George\u2019s durability remains a concern. With <strong data-start=\"1779\" data-end=\"1794\">Joel Embiid<\/strong> also coming off an injury-riddled season, the Sixers&#8217; core faces another uncertain start.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Philadelphia 76ers star Paul George underwent a successful arthroscopic procedure on his left knee Monday to treat an injury suffered during a recent workout, a team official tells ESPN. George will now begin a rehab program and be re-evaluated prior to start of training camp. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/cMX6uANlmY\">pic.twitter.com\/cMX6uANlmY<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ShamsCharania\/status\/1944888905024561199?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 14, 2025<\/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>Sixers forward Paul George had surgery on his left knee. He\u2019ll be re-evaluated at the end of September<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":371864,"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-451422","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\/Philadelphia-76ers.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451422","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=451422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451422\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/371864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=451422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=451422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=451422"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=451422"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=451422"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=451422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}