{"id":862272,"date":"2026-10-18T21:45:21","date_gmt":"2026-10-18T21:45:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/862272\/"},"modified":"2026-10-18T21:45:21","modified_gmt":"2026-10-18T21:45:21","slug":"mavericks-santi-aldama-uncertain-for-regular-season-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/862272\/","title":{"rendered":"Mavericks&#8217; Santi Aldama: Uncertain for regular-season opener"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/nba\/players\/3142224\/aldama\/fantasy\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Aldama<\/a> (knee) remains without a timetable to return, and head coach Dusty May said he &#8220;doesn&#8217;t know yet&#8221; if the forward will play in Wednesday&#8217;s regular-season opener against Houston, Mike Curtis of The Dallas Morning News reports.<\/p>\n<p>Aldama underwent right knee surgery in March and is in jeopardy of missing time to begin the regular season. He can be considered highly questionable for Wednesday&#8217;s contest until further notice. If the 25-year-old is ultimately ruled out, Morez Johnson and Caleb Martin could see increased burn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aldama (knee) remains without a timetable to return, and head coach Dusty May said he &#8220;doesn&#8217;t know yet&#8221;&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":848081,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[7,149,2825,6,1185],"class_list":["post-862272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-basketball","tag-dallas-mavericks","tag-fantasy-basketball","tag-nba","tag-santi-aldama"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/117464106490128692","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862272","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=862272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862272\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/848081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=862272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=862272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=862272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}