{"id":788277,"date":"2026-07-16T18:12:21","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T18:12:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/788277\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T18:12:21","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T18:12:21","slug":"hawks-forward-gueye-has-surgery-for-fractured-left-foot-and-could-miss-start-of-2026-27-season-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/788277\/","title":{"rendered":"Hawks forward Gueye has surgery for fractured left foot and could miss start of 2026-27 season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2276521\" class=\"wp-image-2276521 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/GettyImages-2271467487.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\"  \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2276521\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mouhamed Gueye (left) has played three seasons with the Hawks since being drafted 39th overall in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>ATLANTA\u00a0 \u2014 Atlanta Hawks forward Mouhamed Gueye could miss the start of the 2026-27 season after having surgery for a fractured left foot suffered in a workout.<\/p>\n<p>The Hawks <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ATLHawks\/status\/2077518696772411903?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">announced on Wednesday<\/a> that Gueye had the surgery on Tuesday after suffering the injury on July 8.<\/p>\n<p>The 6-foot-11 Gueye averaged 4.4 points and 3.6 rebounds for Atlanta last season. He played in 77 games, including eight starts, after making 28 starts and averaging 6.0 points and 4.2 rebounds in the 2024-25 season.<\/p>\n<p>The Hawks say Gueye\u2019s status will be updated in three to four months, a timeline which could overlap the start of next season.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">An <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/emoryhealthcare?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">@emoryhealthcare<\/a> injury update: <\/p>\n<p>During a workout on Wednesday, July 8, Mouhamed Gueye sustained a left foot injury. Following an MRI and evaluation, Gueye was diagnosed with a fractured left foot. He underwent surgery yesterday at the Emory Sports Medicine Complex to repair\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/wYHKGdiMWR\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/wYHKGdiMWR<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Atlanta Hawks (@ATLHawks) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ATLHawks\/status\/2077518696772411903?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">July 15, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mouhamed Gueye (left) has played three seasons with the Hawks since being drafted 39th overall in 2023. ATLANTA\u00a0&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":788278,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[7,89110,6],"class_list":["post-788277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-basketball","tag-mouhamed-gueye-injury","tag-nba"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116931012017598809","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788277","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=788277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788277\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/788278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=788277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=788277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=788277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}