{"id":497967,"date":"2026-05-22T23:12:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T21:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=497967"},"modified":"2026-05-22T23:15:44","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T21:15:44","slug":"real-madrid-concern-for-usman-garuba-after-possible-achilles-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/real-madrid-concern-for-usman-garuba-after-possible-achilles-injury\/","title":{"rendered":"Real Madrid, Usman Garuba ruled out of EuroLeague final against Olympiacos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1016\" data-end=\"1166\"><strong data-start=\"1016\" data-end=\"1032\">Usman Garuba<\/strong> will miss the EuroLeague final against <strong data-start=\"1072\" data-end=\"1086\">Olympiacos<\/strong> after suffering an injury during <strong data-start=\"1120\" data-end=\"1137\">Real Madrid\u2019s<\/strong> semifinal win over Valencia.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1168\" data-end=\"1361\">The Spanish big man went down in the fourth quarter with a non-contact injury, as Madrid led 86-73. Garuba tried to walk on his own on the sideline but was unable to put full weight on his leg.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1363\" data-end=\"1522\">Coach <strong data-start=\"1369\" data-end=\"1388\">Sergio Scariolo<\/strong> confirmed his absence: \u201cI don\u2019t know what happened to him before the doctors run the tests. But he is obviously 100% out for Sunday.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1524\" data-end=\"1714\">Real Madrid now reaches the final in a full frontcourt emergency, already without <strong data-start=\"1606\" data-end=\"1621\">Edy Tavares<\/strong> and <strong data-start=\"1626\" data-end=\"1638\">Alex Len<\/strong>. According to club medical staff, the early signs \u201cdon\u2019t look good at all.\u201d<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 1024px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-497967-1\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/05\/Garuba.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/05\/Garuba.mp4\">https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/05\/Garuba.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p data-start=\"712\" data-end=\"844\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Usman Garuba left the EuroLeague semifinal between Valencia and Real Madrid in the fourth quarter with an injury<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":497991,"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":[82],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[22,19],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-497967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-euroleague","typology-infortunio","typology-video"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/05\/Screenshot-2026-05-22-alle-23.13.55.png","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497967","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=497967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497967\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/497991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=497967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=497967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=497967"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=497967"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=497967"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=497967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}