{"id":486967,"date":"2026-03-07T11:07:56","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T10:07:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=486967"},"modified":"2026-03-07T11:07:56","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T10:07:56","slug":"celtics-nikola-vucevic-to-undergo-surgery-out-approximately-one-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/celtics-nikola-vucevic-to-undergo-surgery-out-approximately-one-month\/","title":{"rendered":"Celtics\u2019 Nikola Vucevic to Undergo Surgery, Out Approximately One Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-path-to-node=\"3\">Injuries continue to plague Joe Mazzulla\u2019s squad. Just as the Boston Celtics were enthusiastically celebrating Jayson Tatum\u2019s return to the court, news broke that has dampened the mood at TD Garden: <b data-path-to-node=\"3\" data-index-in-node=\"200\">Nikola Vucevic is sidelined with a right-hand injury.<\/b><\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"4\">According to ESPN sources, the Montenegrin center will undergo surgery this Saturday to repair a <b data-path-to-node=\"4\" data-index-in-node=\"97\">fractured right ring finger<\/b>. The injury is expected to keep him out for approximately <b data-path-to-node=\"4\" data-index-in-node=\"183\">one month<\/b>, forcing Vucevic to miss the remainder of the regular season.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Boston&#8217;s Nikola Vucevic is expected to undergo a procedure on Saturday for his fractured ring finger and miss approximately one month, sources tell ESPN. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/AtHQEzstmI\">https:\/\/t.co\/AtHQEzstmI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ShamsCharania\/status\/2030094192228159820?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 7, 2026<\/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>Injuries continue to plague Joe Mazzulla\u2019s squad<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":177,"featured_media":482745,"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-486967","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\/2026\/02\/nikola-vucevic-celtics.png","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486967","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\/177"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=486967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486967\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/482745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486967"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=486967"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=486967"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=486967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}