{"id":479956,"date":"2024-03-09T23:03:39","date_gmt":"2024-03-10T03:03:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=479956"},"modified":"2024-03-09T23:03:39","modified_gmt":"2024-03-10T03:03:39","slug":"indiana-guard-mathurin-to-have-season-ending-procedure","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/indiana-guard-mathurin-to-have-season-ending-procedure\/","title":{"rendered":"Indiana guard Mathurin to have season-ending procedure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/indiana-pacers\/\">Indiana Pacers<\/a> player Bennedict Mathurin will undergo a campaign-ending procedure to repair a torn right labrum; the franchise shared today.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Bennedict Mathurin has been diagnosed with a torn labrum in his right shoulder, an injury which will require surgery.<\/p>\n<p>He will miss the remainder of the 2023-24 season and is expected to make a full recovery ahead of the 2024-25 season.<\/p>\n<p>Learn more: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/jO14HAk7ft\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/t.co\/jO14HAk7ft<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/I9v6baqXSU\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/I9v6baqXSU<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Indiana Pacers (@Pacers) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Pacers\/status\/1766568143294447970?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March 9, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Bennedict\u2019s loss is a crucial blow to the roster of the league\u2019s top-rated offensive organization.<\/p>\n<p>The surgery will be performed by Dr. Neal ElAttrache in LA in a few days, according to the Pacers. The guard is expected to fully recover for the beginning of the next campaign.<\/p>\n<p>He has performed above expectations since the start of the campaign, averaging 19 points on over 40% shooting from the 3-point line in his last 5 matches.<\/p>\n<p>Bennedict (21) \u2013 a 2023 All-Rookie 1<sup>st<\/sup>-team pick \u2013 averaged almost 15 points and became among Indiana leaders from the bench on 1 of the NBA\u2019s best bench units. Mathurin was the MVP of the 2024 Rising Stars match on All-Star Weekend.<\/p>\n<p>He was the 6<sup>th<\/sup> overall selection in 2022 and averaged almost 17 points in his rookie campaign. Indiana began today 35-29 and 8<sup>th<\/sup> in the standings in the East.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indiana Pacers player Bennedict Mathurin will undergo a campaign-ending procedure to repair a torn right labrum; the franchise shared today. Bennedict Mathurin has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":479957,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16971,17837],"news_category":[16706],"gn_keywords":[22748,18386,1067],"acf":{"announce":"The Pacers\u2019 guard will have campaign-ending surgery.","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/479956"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=479956"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/479956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":479974,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/479956\/revisions\/479974"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/479957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479956"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=479956"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=479956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}