Cleveland Cavaliers star Darius Garland underwent surgery to repair a great toe injury, the team announced on Monday. While the Cavaliers said in their statement that the expectation is Garland will make a full recovery and return to basketball activities by the start of training camp, reports state that his recovery could be more extended than the team’s 4-5 month timeline. ESPN’s Shams Charania said Garland is likely to miss the start of the 2025-25 season.
Garland, per Charania, was diagnosed with the toe sprain on March 23 and managed the injury through the end of the regular season. The sixth-year point guard missed four games across the NBA playoffs’ first and second rounds before his return in Game 3 of the Eastern Conference finals.
Cavaliers coach Kenny Atkinson said during the playoff series that Garland “desperately wants to get on the court” but that his return to the lineup was contingent on how his toe felt. His playing time dipped and so too did his production over the final three games of the postseason as he shot just 34.2% from the field and 16.7% from beyond the arc following his return.
Garland underwent surgery at the Vanderbilt University Medical Center, the team announced, and his status will be updated “as appropriate” throughout the offseason.
The 2024-25 season was one of Garland’s best as a pro. He earned his second All-Star selection and enjoyed a career year from the field with a 47.2% shooting clip. The point guard averaged 20.6 points, 7.6 assists and 2.9 rebounds per game on a Cavaliers squad that earned the No. 1 seed in the Eastern Conference with their 64-18 record, second only in the NBA to the Oklahoma City Thunder.
The Cavaliers have three more years of control as Garland signed a five-year, $197 million deal with the team prior to the 2023-24 campaign. He is set to earn just shy of $40 million in his age-26 season.
Garland was a lottery pick in the 2019 NBA Draft and went No. 5 overall to the Cavaliers by way of Vanderbilt. The Brentwood, Tenn. native was a McDonald’s All-American and an exciting addition to the Commodores roster, but he played less than three weeks before he sustained a season-ending meniscus injury. He left the program in January of his freshman season to prepare for the draft.
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