{"id":484157,"date":"2026-02-17T15:54:18","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T14:54:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=484157"},"modified":"2026-02-17T15:54:18","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T14:54:18","slug":"baskonia-medical-update-diop-ruled-out-kurucs-and-howard-day-to-day-for-the-copa-del-rey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/baskonia-medical-update-diop-ruled-out-kurucs-and-howard-day-to-day-for-the-copa-del-rey\/","title":{"rendered":"Baskonia medical update: Diop ruled out, Kurucs and Howard day-to-day for the Copa del Rey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1441\" data-end=\"1813\"><strong data-start=\"1441\" data-end=\"1460\">Kosner Baskonia<\/strong> released a <strong data-start=\"1472\" data-end=\"1490\">medical report<\/strong> after injuries sustained vs <strong data-start=\"1519\" data-end=\"1535\">Surne Bilbao<\/strong> (Liga Endesa Round 20). The most significant issue is <strong data-start=\"1590\" data-end=\"1606\">Khalifa Diop<\/strong>, who hurt his <strong data-start=\"1621\" data-end=\"1634\">left knee<\/strong> on the opening tip. Tests confirmed a <strong data-start=\"1673\" data-end=\"1688\">bone bruise<\/strong> with <strong data-start=\"1694\" data-end=\"1727\">associated soft-tissue injury<\/strong>, and he will <strong data-start=\"1741\" data-end=\"1764\">miss the next games<\/strong>, with his return timeline depending on progress.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1815\" data-end=\"2079\"><strong data-start=\"1815\" data-end=\"1833\">Rodions Kurucs<\/strong> picked up a <strong data-start=\"1846\" data-end=\"1867\">left-ankle sprain<\/strong> late in the game and will be <strong data-start=\"1897\" data-end=\"1921\">evaluated day by day<\/strong> ahead of the <strong data-start=\"1935\" data-end=\"1951\">Copa del Rey<\/strong>. The same applies to <strong data-start=\"1973\" data-end=\"1990\">Markus Howard<\/strong>, who has a <strong data-start=\"2002\" data-end=\"2025\">left-knee contusion<\/strong> and will also be <strong data-start=\"2043\" data-end=\"2057\">day-to-day<\/strong> heading into the cup.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2081\" data-end=\"2202\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\"><em data-start=\"2081\" data-end=\"2141\">Source: Official Kosner Baskonia statement (Feb. 17, 2026)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Diop suffered a left-knee bone bruise with associated soft-tissue damage. Kurucs (ankle) and Howard (knee) will be monitored daily<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":472923,"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":[305],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[179],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-484157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-acb","typology-injury"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/12\/R6X3808.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484157","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=484157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484157\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/472923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=484157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484157"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=484157"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=484157"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=484157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}