{"id":2031560,"date":"2026-07-07T15:54:47","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T12:54:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2031560"},"modified":"2026-07-07T15:54:47","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T12:54:47","slug":"knicks-jalen-brunson-has-wrist-surgery-expected-to-be-ready-to-start-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2031560","title":{"rendered":"Knicks\u2019 Jalen Brunson has wrist surgery, expected to be ready to start season"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"Article_ContentContainer__jBNW3 article-content-container bodytext1\">\n<p>New York Knicks star Jalen Brunson underwent surgery to repair an injured left wrist that caused him discomfort during the team\u2019s push to the NBA title, league sources confirmed to <em>The Athletic<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>He is expected to resume basketball activities later this summer.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the discomfort, the All-NBA guard averaged 28.4 points during the Knicks\u2019 dominant run to their first NBA title in 53 years \u2014 including 45 points in Game 5 that closed out the 4-1 series win over the San Antonio Spurs. Brunson was named MVP of the NBA Finals.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad-container\">\n<div class=\"ad-wrapper article-treatment\">\n<div class=\"ad-slug-container\">\n<p class=\"ad-slug\">Advertisement<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"mid1\" data-position=\"mid1\" class=\"ad place-ad\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Brunson\u2019s injury, barring setbacks, isn\u2019t expected to linger into training camp, per league sources.<\/p>\n<p>The Knicks will try to repeat as NBA champions with essentially the same roster as last season. The team re-signed Landry Shamet, Jose Alvarado and Mohamed Diawara this offseason. The only substantial change thus far is replacing center Mitchell Robinson, who left to join the Boston Celtics in free agency, with veteran Andre Drummond.<\/p>\n<p>In his four seasons in New York, Brunson has already established himself as a franchise great, averaging 26.3 points and 6.8 assists while leading New York to back-to-back Eastern Conference finals appearances and an NBA title.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York Knicks star Jalen Brunson underwent surgery to repair an injured left wrist that caused him discomfort during the team\u2019s push to the NBA title, league sources confirmed to The Athletic. He is expected to resume basketball activities later this summer. Despite the discomfort, the All-NBA guard averaged 28.4 points during the Knicks\u2019 dominant [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[226,241],"class_list":["post-2031560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-crawlmanager","tag-nytimes-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2031560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2031560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2031560\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2031560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2031560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2031560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}