{"id":479582,"date":"2026-01-18T20:23:34","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T19:23:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=479582"},"modified":"2026-01-18T20:23:34","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T19:23:34","slug":"more-bad-news-for-partizan-shake-milton-to-undergo-hand-surgery-in-the-usa-long-layoff-ahead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/more-bad-news-for-partizan-shake-milton-to-undergo-hand-surgery-in-the-usa-long-layoff-ahead\/","title":{"rendered":"More bad news for Partizan: Shake Milton to undergo hand surgery in the USA, long layoff ahead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1839\" data-end=\"2145\">The 2025\u201326 season continues to go from bad to worse for <strong data-start=\"1896\" data-end=\"1937\"><span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Partizan Mozzart Bet<\/span><\/span><\/strong>. During an <strong data-start=\"1949\" data-end=\"1990\"><span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">ABA League<\/span><\/span><\/strong> game against <strong data-start=\"2004\" data-end=\"2045\"><span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">SC Derby<\/span><\/span><\/strong> in Podgorica, <strong data-start=\"2060\" data-end=\"2101\"><span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Shake Milton<\/span><\/span><\/strong> suffered a serious injury to his left hand.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2147\" data-end=\"2479\">Head coach <strong data-start=\"2158\" data-end=\"2201\"><span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Joan Pe\u00f1arroya<\/span><\/span><\/strong> immediately confirmed the severity of the injury in his postgame press conference. Initial reports from Serbian media suggested Milton would be sidelined for around three months, effectively ending his EuroLeague season, with hopes of a return only for the ABA League playoffs.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2481\" data-end=\"2704\">After internal consultations regarding the best recovery approach, <a href=\"https:\/\/meridiansport.rs\/kosarka\/milton-na-operaciji-u-americi\/\"><em data-start=\"2548\" data-end=\"2564\">Meridian Sport<\/em><\/a> reported that the club concluded surgery was necessary. Medical examinations revealed that Milton fractured a carpal bone in his left hand.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2706\" data-end=\"2859\">Milton has already traveled to the United States, where he will undergo surgery. A clear rehabilitation plan will be established following the procedure.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2861\" data-end=\"3136\">Signed this summer as one of Partizan\u2019s two marquee acquisitions, Milton failed to live up to expectations. He averaged 6.7 points, 3.1 assists and 1.7 rebounds per game, hitting just two three-pointers all season while playing 20 minutes per game across only 13 appearances.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"3138\" data-end=\"3228\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">Another setback in a campaign that has so far brought little relief for the Belgrade club.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Broken carpal bone ends EuroLeague season early<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":145,"featured_media":478521,"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":[87,82,73],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[22],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-479582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aba-liga","category-euroleague","category-serbia","typology-infortunio"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/01\/2025mcer02ott298.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479582","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\/145"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=479582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479582\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/478521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=479582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479582"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=479582"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=479582"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=479582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}