{"id":18686,"date":"2025-07-26T05:07:57","date_gmt":"2025-07-26T09:07:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/kayla-thornton-valkyries-star-down-with-injury-out-for-wnba-season\/"},"modified":"2025-07-26T05:07:57","modified_gmt":"2025-07-26T09:07:57","slug":"kayla-thornton-valkyries-star-down-with-injury-out-for-wnba-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wnba\/kayla-thornton-valkyries-star-down-with-injury-out-for-wnba-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Kayla Thornton, Valkyries star, down with injury: Out for WNBA season"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Kayla Thornton to Miss Rest of WNBA Season After Surgery<\/h2>\n\n\nGolden State Valkyries forward Kayla Thornton will be unable to continue in the WNBA season due to a knee injury that required surgery, the team announced this Friday.\n\nThornton suffered the injury to her right knee during a training session earlier in the week, just after the All-Star Game break, where the player made her first appearance.\n\nThe team confirmed that the surgery was a success.\n\nBefore the operation, Thornton was having a standout season, leading the team in points (14.0), rebounds (7.0), and steals (1.3) per game.\n\nIn this year&#8217;s All-Star Game, Thornton was a substitute on Team Clark, where he scored 15 points in 20 minutes.\n\nThe absence of Thornton represents a hard blow for the expansion franchise, as she had become a leader both on and off the court. She was selected by Golden State in the expansion draft in December, after winning a title with the New York Liberty in 2024.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kayla Thornton to Miss Rest of WNBA Season After Surgery Golden State Valkyries forward Kayla Thornton will be unable to continue in the WNBA season due to a knee injury that required surgery, the team announced this Friday. Thornton suffered the injury to her right knee during a training session earlier in the week, just [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18687,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[290,6189,133,382],"class_list":{"0":"post-18686","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wnba","8":"tag-injury","9":"tag-kayla-thornton","10":"tag-valkyries","11":"tag-wnba"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18686\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}