{"id":335761,"date":"2025-10-11T20:54:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T20:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/335761\/"},"modified":"2025-10-11T20:54:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T20:54:11","slug":"kings-keegan-murray-exits-fridays-game-with-thumb-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/335761\/","title":{"rendered":"Kings&#8217; Keegan Murray Exits Friday&#8217;s Game With Thumb Injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kings forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/m\/murrake02.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.hoopsrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-10-11_bbr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Keegan Murray<\/a>, who is entering his fourth NBA season and is <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hoopsrumors.com\/2025\/04\/players-eligible-for-rookie-scale-extensions-in-2025.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">eligible for a rookie scale extension<\/a> until October 20, suffered a left thumb injury in Friday\u2019s preseason loss to Portland, as <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/sports\/nba\/sacramento-kings\/article312459793.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Jason Anderson of The Sacramento Bee<\/a> relays.<\/p>\n<p>Murray sustained the injury late in the second quarter, Anderson writes, with Sacramento later ruling him out for the second half. The 25-year-old compiled nine points, five rebounds and a steal in 16 minutes of action before leaving the contest.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s possible the Kings may simply have been exercising an abundance of caution by ending Murray\u2019s night early. Still, it\u2019s never a great sign when a starter is forced out of a game, preseason or otherwise.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ll have to wait for further updates to see if Murray will miss additional time as a result of the left thumb issue.<\/p>\n<p>James Ham of ESPN 1320 and The Kings Beat notes (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/James_HamNBA\/status\/1976872318577349056\" rel=\"nofollow\">via Twitter<\/a>) that forward\/center <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/s\/saricda01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.hoopsrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-10-11_bbr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Dario Saric<\/a> was an unexpected bright spot for Sacramento in the one-point loss. The Croatian veteran only appeared in 16 games for the Nuggets last season and didn\u2019t play in the Kings\u2019 first preseason contest, but he went 4-of-4 from three-point range en route to 14 points in 14 minutes on Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kings forward Keegan Murray, who is entering his fourth NBA season and is eligible for a rookie scale&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":335762,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3792],"tags":[7,10877,3210,4056,6,986,477,4055],"class_list":{"0":"post-335761","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sacramento-kings","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-dario-saric","10":"tag-keegan-murray","11":"tag-kings","12":"tag-nba","13":"tag-sacramento","14":"tag-sacramento-kings","15":"tag-sacramentokings"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115357526573486404","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=335761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335761\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/335762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}