{"id":8027,"date":"2023-10-18T16:35:15","date_gmt":"2023-10-18T20:35:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/?p=8027"},"modified":"2023-10-18T16:35:15","modified_gmt":"2023-10-18T20:35:15","slug":"michigan-state-basketball-jaxon-kohler-foot-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/?p=8027","title":{"rendered":"Michigan State basketball loses Jaxon Kohler to foot injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Michigan State basketball has lost sophomore big man Jaxon Kohler to a foot injury which he just had surgically repaired.<\/h2>\n<p>Death. Taxes. Foot injuries to <a href=\"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/michigan-state-basketball-what-considered-successful-season\/\">Michigan State basketball<\/a> players.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, Michigan State announced that Jaxon Kohler had foot surgery earlier this week and he will miss some time. He&#8217;s expected to return to action by Christmas.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Jaxon Kohler had surgery on his left foot on Tuesday, MSU announces. The program is expecting him to be back before Christmas.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Kyle Austin (@kylebaustin) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kylebaustin\/status\/1714731363176182246?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 18, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>This news shouldn&#8217;t come as a major shock because, well, it happens darn near every year.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, it was Jaden Akins along with Malik Hall who suffered foot\/ankle injuries. It&#8217;s almost like an annual Michigan State basketball tradition. It&#8217;s always a surprise when it comes to which player it is, but it&#8217;s the most predictable injury that affects the program.<\/p>\n<p>Tom Izzo has to be frustrated by this regular occurrence. He&#8217;s just trying to prepare for one of the most anticipated seasons in recent memory and he can&#8217;t seem to keep everyone healthy. If this is the only injury the Spartans suffer before the season, though, he can live with it. Kohler is going to be a solid role player this season and he seemingly had a really good summer, but there are other options at center.<\/p>\n<p>Mady Sissoko is going to have to step up again and Carson Cooper needs to take that next step. We&#8217;ll see a lot more of Cooper, in my opinion.<\/p>\n<p>As for Kohler, we just have to hope this doesn&#8217;t affect his confidence. He has shown flashes of being a really solid offensive big in East Lansing and he could be a go-to post scorer for this team. If he misses all of conference play, that puts him behind but he could still make up for lost time with a strong start to Big Ten action.<\/p>\n<p>You have to feel bad for Kohler who was staring down a breakout year, but hopefully he&#8217;s back soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When will the pain and suffering end?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8029,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[59,201,190,189,504],"class_list":["post-8027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-basketball","tag-featured","tag-jaxon-kohler","tag-michigan-state-basketball","tag-michigan-state-spartans","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8027\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}