{"id":23196,"date":"2025-08-08T15:41:18","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T19:41:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/chris-duarte-sidelined-by-injury-americup-2025-at-risk\/"},"modified":"2025-08-08T15:41:18","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T19:41:18","slug":"chris-duarte-sidelined-by-injury-americup-2025-at-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/nationals\/chris-duarte-sidelined-by-injury-americup-2025-at-risk\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Duarte sidelined by injury: AmeriCup 2025 at risk?"},"content":{"rendered":"M\u00c1LAGA, Spain \u2013 The basketball world receives worrying news. Chris Duarte, recently acquired by Unicaja de M\u00e1laga, has announced a pause in his sporting career. The decision comes after suffering a lumbar injury during the finals of the Puerto Rico league, where he played with the Vaqueros de Bayam\u00f3n.\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Prioritizing Health<\/h2>\n\n\nThe injury, suffered in the first game of the final series against the Leones de Ponce, will keep him off the courts for the rest of the competition. Duarte, visibly affected by the situation, shared his feelings through social media.\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Today I have to take a break and prioritize my health. I am focused on recovering responsibly so I can return stronger, with the same dedication that has always characterized me.<\/p><cite>Chris Duarte<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\nDuarte&#8217;s absence is also reflected in the first call-up by Ernesto &#8220;Ch\u00e9&#8221; Garc\u00eda, coach of the Dominican Republic, for the AmeriCup 2025. The tournament will be held in Managua, Nicaragua, from August 22 to 31, where the Dominican team will share Group D with Argentina, Colombia, and the host team.\n\nThe forward is expected to travel to M\u00e1laga to be evaluated by the Unicaja medical team, who will determine the real extent of his injury.\n\nIn the Puerto Rican season, Duarte proved his worth with averages of 20.2 points, 5.1 rebounds and 5 assists, establishing himself as a key figure in the offense.\n\nDuarte has assured that he will continue to support his team from outside the court and trusts that his teammates will win the championship.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>M\u00c1LAGA, Spain \u2013 The basketball world receives worrying news. Chris Duarte, recently acquired by Unicaja de M\u00e1laga, has announced a pause in his sporting career. The decision comes after suffering a lumbar injury during the finals of the Puerto Rico league, where he played with the Vaqueros de Bayam\u00f3n. Prioritizing Health The injury, suffered in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23197,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[997],"tags":[389,5267,7034,5268],"class_list":{"0":"post-23196","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nationals","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-chris-duarte","10":"tag-lumbar-injury","11":"tag-unicaja"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23196","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=23196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23196\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}