{"id":864355,"date":"2026-10-21T09:33:21","date_gmt":"2026-10-21T09:33:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/864355\/"},"modified":"2026-10-21T09:33:21","modified_gmt":"2026-10-21T09:33:21","slug":"top-draft-pick-aj-dybantsa-to-miss-the-season-opener-for-wizards-with-a-sprained-ankle-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/864355\/","title":{"rendered":"Top draft pick AJ Dybantsa to miss the season opener for Wizards with a sprained ankle | Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 Top draft pick AJ Dybantsa will miss the season opener for the Washington Wizards on Wednesday night with a sprained ankle.<\/p>\n<p>Coach Brian Keefe said Tuesday that Dybantsa would not play against the Milwaukee Bucks. The Wizards <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/washington-wizards-aj-dybantsa-449fb209fe32489b0ecbd3d4ec751ef3\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">took him No. 1<\/a> out of BYU in this year&#8217;s draft.<\/p>\n<p>kAmsJ32?ED2 \ud83d\ude00 @?6 @7 E96 C62D@?D 9@A6D 2C6 9:896C \ud83d\ude15 (2D9:?8E@? E92? \ud83d\ude15 E96 C646?E A2DE] %96 (:K2C5D 2=D@ 25565 G6E6C2?D %C26 *@F?8 2?5 p?E9@?J s2G:D =2DE D62D@?[ 3FE s2G:D 5:5?VE A=2J 2E 2== \ud83d\ude15 2 (2D9:?8E@? F?:7@C&gt;] w6VD k2 9C67lQ9EEADi^^2A?6HD]4@&gt;^2CE:4=6^H2D9:?8E@?\\H:K2C5D\\2?E9@?J\\52G:D\\3bg6hd67472fa7echfe42fcb52743734Qm324&lt; ?@Hk^2m]k^Am<\/p>\n<p>kAmsJ32?ED2VD 563FE H:== 92G6 E@ H2:E] %96 (:K2C5D 2C6 2=D@ 9@&gt;6 uC:52J ?:89E 282:?DE %@C@?E@]k^Am<\/p>\n<p>kAm\u201cw6VD 8@:?8 E@ 36 52J E@ 52J[\u201d z6676 D2:5]k^Am<\/p>\n<p>k9C ^m<\/p>\n<p>kAmk2 9C67lQ9EEADi^^2A?6HD]4@&gt;^9F3^?32Qm$66 p!\u2019D 7F== }qp 4@G6C286 96C6k^2mk^Am<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 Top draft pick AJ Dybantsa will miss the season opener for the Washington Wizards on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":864356,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3780],"tags":[7,6,446,12,66,682,468,94401,3892,683],"class_list":["post-864355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-washington-wizards","tag-basketball","tag-nba","tag-nba-basketball","tag-nba-draft","tag-sports","tag-washington","tag-washington-wizards","tag-washington-wizards-aj-dybantsa","tag-washingtonwizards","tag-wizards"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/117478215129378736","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864355","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=864355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864355\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/864356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=864355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=864355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=864355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}