{"id":112052,"date":"2024-12-13T19:45:14","date_gmt":"2024-12-14T00:45:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/?p=112052"},"modified":"2024-12-13T19:45:14","modified_gmt":"2024-12-14T00:45:14","slug":"nets-yongxi-cui-acl-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/2024\/12\/13\/nets-yongxi-cui-acl-injury\/","title":{"rendered":"Nets\u2019 Yongxi Cui Sustains Devastating Injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Brooklyn Nets won\u2019t be seeing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/c\/cuiyo01.html\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Yongxi Cui<\/a> again until next season, as the rookie tore his left ACL on Dec. 11 while on assignment with the Long Island Nets, their G League affiliate (h\/t Brian Lewis of the New York Post).<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\"><a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Nets?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#Nets<\/a> two-way Cui Yongxi has a torn ACL of the left knee, per the team. The injury occurred while playing for G League Long Island on Wednesday, Dec. 11. Cui, who will miss the rest of the season, is expected to make a full recovery. <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NBA?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#NBA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Brian Lewis (@NYPost_Lewis) <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NYPost_Lewis\/status\/1867647636821750007?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">December 13, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Cui, who <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/2024\/09\/02\/nets-top-chinese-prospect-yongxi-jacky-cui-inks-deal\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">signed a two-way contract<\/a> with Brooklyn in September, is expected to make a full recovery. Nonetheless, it\u2019s a tough blow for \u00a0a player who was the top Chinese prospect in the 2024 draft cycle. In fact, Cui is the only Chinese player in the NBA.<\/p>\n<h2>Nets\u2019 Yongxi Cui Sustains Devastating ACL Injury<\/h2>\n<p>Cui was more than a ceremonial signing, as the 21-year-old wing has demonstrated an ability to attack off-the-dribble and make defensive plays. In his time with both Brooklyn and Long Island, his averages were modest. However, he recently had his best game of the season, stuffing the stat sheet against the G League\u2019s College Park Skyhawks.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/youtu.be\/p4dBSG2qDKM?si=gP3EBbQ6wjunb0kY<\/p>\n<p>The Yulin native finished the night with 14 points, four rebounds, two assists, three steals, and two blocks.<\/p>\n<p>With his physical tools and play in the Chinese Basketball Association (CBA), he already appeared capable of being a rotation-caliber NBA player. However, most young players don\u2019t hit the ground running, no matter where they\u2019re from. That being said, it\u2019s still relatively early in his developmental trajectory. Still, that type of performance could\u2019ve marked a new checkpoint for Cui.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately for him and his fans, the wait for him to round to corner will take a little longer.<\/p>\n<p>\u795d\u4f60\u597d\u904b<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Brooklyn Nets won\u2019t be seeing Yongxi Cui again until next season, as the rookie tore his left ACL on Dec. 11 while on assignment with the Long Island Nets, their G League affiliate (h\/t Brian Lewis of the New York Post). #Nets two-way Cui Yongxi has a torn ACL of the left knee, per [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5008,"featured_media":112064,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1608,62],"tags":[4745,49561],"class_list":["post-112052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nets","category-basketball","category-nba","tag-nba-injuries","tag-yongxi-cui"],"modified_by":"Quenton S Albertie","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5008"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112052"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":112065,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112052\/revisions\/112065"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}