{"id":547977,"date":"2026-10-06T21:29:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T19:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=547977"},"modified":"2026-10-06T21:29:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T19:29:14","slug":"sixers-lose-ariel-hukporti-for-the-season-with-achilles-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/sixers-lose-ariel-hukporti-for-the-season-with-achilles-injury\/","title":{"rendered":"Sixers Lose Ariel Hukporti for the Season With Achilles Injury"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Philadelphia 76ers will be without Ariel Hukporti for the remainder of the season after the German center suffered a rupture of his right Achilles tendon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hukporti sustained the injury in his preseason debut against his former team, the New York Knicks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The 23-year-old signed a one-year deal worth approximately $3.4 million this summer and was competing with Adem Bona for the backup center role behind Joel Embiid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-x wp-block-embed-x\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Philadelphia 76ers 7-footer Ariel Hukporti has sustained a season-ending ruptured right Achilles tendon, sources tell ESPN. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ES2qRHK973\">pic.twitter.com\/ES2qRHK973<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ShamsCharania\/status\/2107548790819267047?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 6, 2026<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hukporti sustained the injury in his preseason debut against his former team, the New York Knicks<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":381242,"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-547977","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\/2024\/04\/ariel-hukporti-photo-fiba.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547977","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=547977"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":547981,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547977\/revisions\/547981"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/381242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547977"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=547977"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=547977"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=547977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}