{"id":658750,"date":"2026-03-14T23:47:42","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T23:47:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/658750\/"},"modified":"2026-03-14T23:47:42","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T23:47:42","slug":"max-strus-set-to-debut-sunday-night-against-mavericks-following-foot-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/658750\/","title":{"rendered":"Max Strus set to debut Sunday night against Mavericks following foot injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An NBA injury report revealed Saturday that Cleveland Cavaliers forward Max Strus is listed as probable to play on the court.<\/p>\n<p>Barring any setback, Strus is expected to make his season debut in Sunday night&#8217;s game against the Dallas Mavericks.<\/p>\n<p>This comes after an off-season foot injury that kept Strus off the court for most of the 2025-2026 season.<\/p>\n<p>Strus <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.news5cleveland.com\/sports\/basketball\/cavaliers\/cavaliers-max-strus-is-out-at-least-3-months-after-having-surgery-on-his-left-foot\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">broke his left foot<\/a>, a Jones fracture, last summer and had surgery on it. The injury took months of recovery.<\/p>\n<p>A Jones fracture is a break of the bone that connects the pinkie toe to the base of the foot.<\/p>\n<p>In January, he had an evaluation that extended his recovery time.<\/p>\n<p>RELATED: <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.news5cleveland.com\/sports\/basketball\/cavaliers\/cavs-say-max-strus-needs-more-time-to-recover-for-foot-injury\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Cavs say Max Strus needs more time to recover for foot injury<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Last season, Strus averaged 25.5 minutes a game with 9.4 points, 3.2 assists and 4.3 rebounds and shooting 44.2% from the field. <\/p>\n<p>We Follow Through<\/p>\n<p>Want us to continue to follow through on a story? Let us know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An NBA injury report revealed Saturday that Cleveland Cavaliers forward Max Strus is listed as probable to play&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":658751,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3793],"tags":[7,193,686,149,4057,166,872,6,8889,4128,4129,84775],"class_list":["post-658750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas-mavericks","tag-basketball","tag-cleveland-cavaliers","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-mavericks","tag-dallasmavericks","tag-mavericks","tag-max-strus","tag-nba","tag-nba-injury-report","tag-news5cleveland","tag-northeast-ohio-news","tag-proabable"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116230202964102451","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658750","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=658750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658750\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/658751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}