{"id":33731,"date":"2024-03-30T01:19:27","date_gmt":"2024-03-29T22:19:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/33731\/kings-kevin-huerter-set-for\/"},"modified":"2024-03-30T01:19:28","modified_gmt":"2024-03-29T22:19:28","slug":"kings-kevin-huerter-set-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/?p=33731","title":{"rendered":"Kings&#8217; Kevin Huerter set for shoulder surgery, out for season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kings&#8217; Kevin Huerter set for shoulder surgery, out for season\u060c<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"article-meta\">\n<ul class=\"authors\">\n<li class=\"mugshot-shown\">\n<div class=\"author-img\"><\/div>\n<p>Adrian Wojnarowski, ESPN<span class=\"timestamp \">March 29, 2024, 8:50 p.m.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>Sacramento Kings guard Kevin Huerter will undergo season-ending surgery on his left shoulder to repair a torn labrum, Mark Bartelstein of Priority Sports told ESPN on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Huerter is expected to make a full recovery for the <a class=\"wpil_keyword_link\" href=\"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/tag\/start\/\"   title=\"start\" data-wpil-keyword-link=\"linked\">start<\/a> of the 2024-25 season, Bartelstein told ESPN.<\/p>\n<p>Huerter&#39;s loss is a blow to a Kings franchise fighting to stay out of the play-in tournament and return to the Western Conference playoffs for the second straight season.  Sacramento (42-30) is currently eighth in the West, one game behind the sixth-place Dallas Mavericks heading into Friday&#39;s game.<\/p>\n<p>Huerter, 25, had missed five straight games since suffering a dislocated shoulder and torn labrum and will now use the offseason to rehab.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"inline editorial float-r\" data-behavior=\"article_related\">\n<h2 class=\"editorial-title\">Editor&#39;s Choice<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Kings-Kevin-Huerter-set-for-shoulder-surgery-out-for-season.jpg&#038;w=130&#038;h=130&#038;scale=crop&#038;location=center.jpeg\" width=\"65\" height=\"65\"\/><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/aside>\n<p>He started 59 games for the Kings this season and averaged 10.2 points, 3.5 rebounds and 2.6 assists.  The Kings were 11-4 in games when Huerter scored more than 15 points, according to ESPN Stats &#038; Information.<\/p>\n<p>Huerter played a big role in ending the Kings&#39; playoff drought a season ago, reaching career highs in points (15.2), field goal percentage (48.5) and 3-point shooting percentage (40.2).<\/p>\n<p>Huerter landed with the Kings in a 2022 trade with the Atlanta Hawks.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kings&#8217; Kevin Huerter set for shoulder surgery, out for season\u060c Adrian Wojnarowski, ESPNMarch 29, 2024, 8:50 p.m. Sacramento Kings guard Kevin Huerter will undergo season-ending surgery on his left shoulder to repair a torn labrum, Mark Bartelstein of Priority Sports told ESPN on Friday. Huerter is expected to make a full recovery for the start [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33732,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[12481,2112,5476,1555,74,2061,2060],"class_list":["post-33731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-sports","tag-huerter","tag-kevin","tag-kings","tag-season","tag-set","tag-shoulder","tag-surgery"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33731"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33733,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33731\/revisions\/33733"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/33732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}