{"id":509495,"date":"2026-01-01T08:44:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T08:44:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/509495\/"},"modified":"2026-01-01T08:44:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T08:44:14","slug":"amael-letang-malcolm-thomas-sidelined-for-a-10-opener-vs-fordham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/509495\/","title":{"rendered":"Ama\u00ebl L\u2019Etang, Malcolm Thomas sidelined for A-10 opener vs. Fordham"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"story-text \" data-index=\"1\">The A-10 started the availability reports for men\u2019s basketball this week. A-10 play began Tuesday with Duquesne winning 89-83 in double overtime at Davidson.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-text \" data-index=\"2\">This will be the first game L\u2019Etang, a sophomore forward, will miss a game in two seasons. He started the last 17 games last season and started the first 13 games this season. He\u2019s Dayton\u2019s third-leading scorer (12.8 points per game).<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-text \" data-index=\"4\">Thomas, a sophomore forward who averages 5.0 points per game, hurt his ankle in the first half of Dayton\u2019s last game, a 64-61 loss to Liberty on Dec. 20 at UD Arena. A video shared by the official Dayton basketball social media accounts of the team practicing over the break showed Thomas sitting on the bench wearing a protective boot.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-text \" data-index=\"6\">The availability reports do not list the nature of the injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-text \" data-index=\"8\">Fordham will be without four players: senior guard Christian Henry, the team\u2019s second-leading scorer (12.2); sophomore forward Abass Bodija (6.9); sophomore guard Ryan Pettis, who has not played since November; and sophomore guard Aidan Crotty, who has played 12 minutes in five games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The A-10 started the availability reports for men\u2019s basketball this week. A-10 play began Tuesday with Duquesne winning&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":509496,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3724],"tags":[7,5486,66],"class_list":{"0":"post-509495","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-basketball","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-college-football","10":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115818965685836174","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509495","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=509495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509495\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/509496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=509495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=509495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=509495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}