{"id":494324,"date":"2026-04-26T09:15:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T07:15:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=494324"},"modified":"2026-04-26T09:15:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T07:15:17","slug":"timberwolves-donte-divincenzo-out-for-the-season-with-torn-achilles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/timberwolves-donte-divincenzo-out-for-the-season-with-torn-achilles\/","title":{"rendered":"Timberwolves: Donte DiVincenzo Out for the Season with Torn Achilles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Game 4 win over the Denver Nuggets comes at a huge cost for the Minnesota Timberwolves, who will be without Donte DiVincenzo for the remainder of the season due to a torn right Achilles tendon.<\/p>\n<p>The guard had been playing an excellent series, totaling 30 points in the previous two wins along with 15 assists to just 3 turnovers.<\/p>\n<p>The former Villanova standout will also be unable to join the Italian national team this summer and is expected to miss a significant portion of next NBA season as well.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">DiVincenzo<\/span><\/span> is under contract with the <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Timberwolves<\/span><\/span> through the end of the 2026\/27 season.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">79 seconds into the game, Donte DiVincenzo slips and holds his achilles area, calls the medical staff (with replays)<br \/>\nHe limps to the locker room, Chris Finch came to hug him on the way, his teammate escort him in support, the crowd shows its support. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/RhmjwrgUor\">pic.twitter.com\/RhmjwrgUor<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 MrBuckBuck (@MrBuckBuckNBA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MrBuckBuckNBA\/status\/2048205258984169556?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 26, 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>The former Villanova standout will also be unable to join the Italian national team this summer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":494325,"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":[179,187],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-494324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","typology-injury","typology-video"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/04\/mnjvhv.png","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494324","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\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=494324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494324\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/494325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=494324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=494324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=494324"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=494324"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=494324"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=494324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}