{"id":481341,"date":"2024-03-31T07:17:46","date_gmt":"2024-03-31T11:17:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=481341"},"modified":"2024-03-30T23:08:08","modified_gmt":"2024-03-31T03:08:08","slug":"kings-monk-suffers-mcl-and-is-out-for-up-to-6-weeks","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/kings-monk-suffers-mcl-and-is-out-for-up-to-6-weeks\/","title":{"rendered":"Kings&#8217; Monk suffers MCL and is out for up to 6 weeks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sacramento Kings player <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/player\/malik-monk\/\">Malik Monk<\/a> \u2013 1 of the favorites for National Basketball Association 6<sup>th<\/sup> Man of the Year \u2013 has sustained a sprained right MCL and is expected to be out 4-to-6 weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Malik, who sustained the problem after <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/player\/luka-doncic\/\"><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/player\/luka-doncic\/\">Luka Doncic<\/a><\/a> landed on his knee in a defeat to the Mavs two days ago, will likely need his team to clinch the Western Conference postseason to return this campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Sacramento is 8<sup>th<\/sup> in the Western Conference \u2013 half-game behind 7<sup>th<\/sup> Suns &#8211; and are now without guards <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/player\/kevin-huerter\/\">Kevin Huerter<\/a> (shoulder problem) and Malik for the final 2 weeks of the regular campaign at least.<\/p>\n<p>The play-in tournament will start on April 16 with the 1<sup>st<\/sup> round from the playoffs starting 4 days after that.<\/p>\n<p>The Kings guard has had his finest league campaign, averaging career-bests of over 15 points and over 5 assists and leading his organization when he comes from the bench.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Malik Monk this season:<\/p>\n<p>15.4 PPG (career-high)<br \/>5.1 APG (career-high)<br \/>44\/35\/83%<\/p>\n<p>6MOY? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/cTAgGV54n0\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/t.co\/cTAgGV54n0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; StatMuse (@statmuse) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/statmuse\/status\/1774198448297853078?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March 30, 2024<\/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>Sacramento Kings player Malik Monk \u2013 1 of the favorites for National Basketball Association 6th Man of the Year \u2013 has sustained a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":481342,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17764,17837,16941],"news_category":[16706],"gn_keywords":[22820,17839,1067],"acf":{"announce":"The Sacramento guard will be sidelined for up to a month and a half.","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\/481341"}],"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=481341"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/481341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":481344,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/481341\/revisions\/481344"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/481342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481341"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=481341"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=481341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}