{"id":403247,"date":"2024-06-15T06:36:00","date_gmt":"2024-06-15T06:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=403247"},"modified":"2024-06-15T10:07:04","modified_gmt":"2024-06-15T10:07:04","slug":"suns-troubled-as-king-training-mishap-cleared","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=403247","title":{"rendered":"Suns troubled as King training mishap cleared"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nine.com.au\/topic\/gold-coast-suns-5sh\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"Gold Coast\">Gold Coast<\/a> are hopeful Ben King has avoided another season-ending injury after the star forward left training hurt on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>King sent a major scare throughout the Suns camp as he fell to the ground with a knee injury.<\/p>\n<p>The 23-year-old was immediately taken for scans, however, has since be cleared of any major damage.<\/p>\n<p>\ufeff<strong>READ MORE:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nine.com.au\/sport\/rugby\/australia-news-2024-wallabies-focus-after-brumbies-bow-out-of-super-pacific-competition-20240614-p5jlyf.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Ball falls to Joe Schmidt to end Wallabies &#x27;stench&#x27;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nine.com.au\/sport\/rugby\/super-pacific-news-2024-blues-vs-brumbies-semi-final-results-highlights-video-20240614-p5jly1.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>&#x27;What just happened&#x27; as Blues book Super Rugby final<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nine.com.au\/sport\/rugby\/super-pacific-2024-live-scores-blues-brumbies-results-semifinal-updates-news-video-highlights-20240614-p5jlvw.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Slow starting Brumbies bullied by Blues in nightmare semi<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>King missed the entire 2022 season with a ruptured ACL, with many fearing the star had suffered the injury again.\ufeff<\/p>\n<p>In a sigh of relief for coach <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/afl\/damien-hardwick\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"Damien Hardwick\">Damien Hardwick<\/a>, scans confirmed King&#x27;s ligament was still intact with the bone slightly bruised.<\/p>\n<p>After undergoing a knee reconstruction in 2022, King has returned to the field in strong form.<\/p>\n<p><img data-id=\"3ee31993-dafc-41c7-a42a-8363bf4da58b\" src=\"https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/3ee31993-dafc-41c7-a42a-8363bf4da58b\" alt=\"Ben King of the Suns celebrates kicking a goal.\" data-width=\"1024\" data-height=\"576\" \/><\/p>\n<p>King is a joint leader in the Coleman Medal race with 38 goals this season, matched with Carlton&#x27;s Charlie Curnow.<\/p>\n<p>The \ufeff23-year-old will return to training this week in hopes of being available for selection when the Suns meet Fremantle next Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Gold Coast, who are 7-6, sits just outside the top eight in their bye-round.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Gold Coast are hopeful Ben King has avoided another season-ending injury after the star forward left training hurt on Saturday. King sent a major scare <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=403247\" title=\"Suns troubled as King training mishap cleared\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":403249,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403247"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=403247"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":403250,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403247\/revisions\/403250"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/403249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=403247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=403247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=403247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}