{"id":596359,"date":"2026-02-11T08:39:30","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T08:39:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/596359\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T08:39:30","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T08:39:30","slug":"jimmy-butler-underwent-successful-acl-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/596359\/","title":{"rendered":"Jimmy Butler underwent successful ACL surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Per the Golden State Warriors\u2019 official PR page on X\/Twitter, Jimmy Butler III \u2014 who suffered a torn right anterior cruciate ligament back on January 19 against the Miami Heat \u2014 underwent successful ACL repair surgery today.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Butler is expected to make a full recovery from his injury \u2014 assuming a year\u2019s worth of uninterrupted rehabilitation \u2014 and an update on his progress will be made \u201cearly next season,\u201d per the official announcement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Butler was a key two-way cog as the second banana to Steph Curry this season. His untimely exit is a huge blow to the Warriors\u2019 hopes to contend during the playoffs, let alone for a chance at an unlikely NBA title, which would be the fifth for Curry and Draymond Green and the first for Butler.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Per the Golden State Warriors\u2019 official PR page on X\/Twitter, Jimmy Butler III \u2014 who suffered a torn&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":596360,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3786],"tags":[7,479,164,4025,4024,6,255,1226,1224],"class_list":{"0":"post-596359","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golden-state-warriors","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-golden-state","10":"tag-golden-state-warriors","11":"tag-goldenstate","12":"tag-goldenstatewarriors","13":"tag-nba","14":"tag-warriors","15":"tag-warriors-injury-report","16":"tag-warriors-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116051100648139502","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596359","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=596359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596359\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/596360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=596359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=596359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=596359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}