{"id":464313,"date":"2025-10-13T11:16:56","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T09:16:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=464313"},"modified":"2025-10-13T11:16:56","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T09:16:56","slug":"sacramento-kings-keegan-murray-sidelined-for-start-of-season-due-to-thumb-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/sacramento-kings-keegan-murray-sidelined-for-start-of-season-due-to-thumb-surgery\/","title":{"rendered":"Sacramento Kings&#8217; Keegan Murray sidelined for start of season due to thumb surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1236\" data-end=\"1491\"><strong data-start=\"1236\" data-end=\"1256\">Sacramento Kings<\/strong> forward <strong data-start=\"1265\" data-end=\"1282\">Keegan Murray<\/strong> suffered a <strong data-start=\"1294\" data-end=\"1324\">torn UCL in his left thumb<\/strong> during a preseason loss in Portland. He will undergo surgery and be reevaluated in four to six weeks, sidelining him for the opening 10 games of the regular season.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1493\" data-end=\"1658\">The timing is tough for Murray, who is eligible for a contract extension until October 20. Without a deal, he would become a <strong data-start=\"1618\" data-end=\"1643\">restricted free agent<\/strong> next summer.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1660\" data-end=\"1874\">A key starter for Sacramento, Murray has played 233 of a possible 246 games in three seasons. <strong data-start=\"1754\" data-end=\"1769\">Dario Saric<\/strong>, <strong data-start=\"1771\" data-end=\"1785\">Malik Monk<\/strong>, <strong data-start=\"1787\" data-end=\"1801\">Keon Ellis<\/strong> or rookie <strong data-start=\"1812\" data-end=\"1830\">Nique Clifford<\/strong> could replace him in the starting lineup.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"993\" data-end=\"1043\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/story\/_\/id\/46573785\/kings-keegan-murray-start-season-ucl-tear\"><em data-start=\"993\" data-end=\"1006\">Source: ESPN<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Keegan Murray suffered a torn UCL in his left thumb during a preseason loss in Portland<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":393198,"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-464313","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\/06\/Sacramento-Kings.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464313","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=464313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464313\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/393198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=464313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=464313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=464313"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=464313"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=464313"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=464313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}