{"id":6347,"date":"2025-10-15T23:52:56","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T23:52:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/?p=6347"},"modified":"2025-10-15T23:52:57","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T23:52:57","slug":"kings-keegan-murray-out-for-start-of-season-with-ucl-tear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/?p=6347","title":{"rendered":"Kings&#8217; Keegan Murray out for start of season with UCL tear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div><a data-clubhouse-guid=\"e266c4ea-9af3-1bd8-06fb-fd608fd30e26\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/sac\/sacramento-kings\">Sacramento Kings<\/a> forward <a data-player-guid=\"3077c486-4dd1-36e7-ab23-aa28144b7a1b\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/4594327\/keegan-murray\">Keegan Murray<\/a> suffered a torn ulnar collateral ligament in his left thumb during a preseason loss in Portland on Friday night, the team announced.<\/p>\n<p>Murray had surgery Monday and will be reevaluated in four to six weeks, ruling the Kings&#8217; young power forward out for at least the first 10 games of the regular season.<\/p>\n<p>The injury comes at a pivotal time in Murray&#8217;s career. Entering his fourth season, he is eligible for a contract extension in the next week. The deadline to come to an agreement with the Kings is Oct. 20. If they can&#8217;t, Murray will enter restricted free agency next summer.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"inline editorial float-r\" data-behavior=\"article_related\">\n<h2 class=\"editorial-title\">Editor&#8217;s Picks<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a name=\"&amp;lpos=story:editorspicks:inline:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/story\/_\/id\/46521096\/nba-2025-2026-season-win-projections-all-30-teams\" class=\"img-link\"><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Murray has been a pillar of durability early in his NBA career, appearing in 233 of a possible 246 games his first three seasons, starting all but two of them. This UCL tear is the most significant injury he has suffered as a pro.<\/p>\n<p>Murray was the projected starting power forward for a Kings team attempting to compete for a playoff spot in the Western Conference. He has made 543 career 3s and developed into a versatile defender on the wing, meaning the Kings will be without a crucial floor spacer and their most trusted stopper in the opening month.<\/p>\n<p>Veteran forward <a data-player-guid=\"ec510d5f-3cb7-033b-ef46-6f3f331f0710\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/3032978\/dario-saric\">Dario Saric<\/a>, veteran guard <a data-player-guid=\"919db74b-1f21-4955-fa42-446e67f7811c\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/4066262\/malik-monk\">Malik Monk<\/a>, fourth-year guard <a data-player-guid=\"25ed0186-6dfb-330f-a7b2-5895570fd56a\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/4702177\/keon-ellis\">Keon Ellis<\/a> and rookie <a data-player-guid=\"3da4dcbe-ff57-3082-a02a-48ec86e1ba8b\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/4702384\/nique-clifford\">Nique Clifford<\/a> are among the candidates who could start in Murray&#8217;s place. <a data-player-guid=\"ed50e972-a95d-6b5c-3fcd-0d75616d1159\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/3032979\/dennis-schroder\">Dennis Schroder<\/a>, <a data-player-guid=\"dba79cae-3f61-b87b-37d9-223f39b4f516\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/3064440\/zach-lavine\">Zach LaVine<\/a>, <a data-player-guid=\"d942ef5e-c416-b06e-63ac-5f3db14757be\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/3978\/demar-derozan\">DeMar DeRozan<\/a> and <a data-player-guid=\"c2eb1a17-7809-2cc6-3fa7-7a5e63654ae4\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/3155942\/domantas-sabonis\">Domantas Sabonis<\/a> are the four other expected starters.\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/story\/_\/id\/46573785\/kings-keegan-murray-start-season-ucl-tear\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sacramento Kings forward Keegan Murray suffered a torn ulnar collateral ligament in his left thumb during a preseason loss in Portland on Friday night, the team announced. Murray had surgery Monday and will be reevaluated in four to six weeks, ruling the Kings&#8217; young power forward out for at least the first 10 games of &#8230; <a title=\"Kings&#8217; Keegan Murray out for start of season with UCL tear\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/?p=6347\" aria-label=\"Read more about Kings&#8217; Keegan Murray out for start of season with UCL tear\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6348,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Kings-Keegan-Murray-out-for-start-of-season-with-UCL.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6347"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6349,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6347\/revisions\/6349"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}