{"id":445010,"date":"2025-12-13T19:37:03","date_gmt":"2025-12-13T19:37:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/445010\/"},"modified":"2025-12-13T19:37:03","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T19:37:03","slug":"auburns-emeka-opurum-to-miss-remainder-of-the-season-auburn-tigers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/445010\/","title":{"rendered":"Auburn\u2019s Emeka Opurum to miss remainder of the season &#8211; Auburn Tigers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>AUBURN, Ala. <\/strong><strong>\u2013<\/strong> Auburn sophomore center <a href=\"https:\/\/auburntigers.com\/sports\/mens-basketball\/roster\/player\/emeka-opurum\" title=\"Emeka Opurum\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Emeka Opurum<\/a> will miss the remainder of the 2025-26 season due to a medical condition, head coach <a href=\"https:\/\/auburntigers.com\/staff\/steven-pearl\" title=\"Steven Pearl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Steven Pearl<\/a> announced Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur priority is Emeka\u2019s health and well-being,\u201d Pearl said. \u201cWe look forward to Emeka making a full recovery and returning next season.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A transfer from Butler Community College in Kansas, Opurum has played in six games this season, averaging 3.8 points, 2.5 rebounds and 1.0 blocks a game while playing 9.6 minutes a content.<\/p>\n<p>Auburn (7-3) plays Chattanooga (5-5) Saturday at 3:30 p.m. CT in Atlanta\u2019s State Farm Arena in the annual Holiday Hoopsgiving event. The game will be televised by the SEC Network.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUBURN, Ala. \u2013 Auburn sophomore center Emeka Opurum will miss the remainder of the 2025-26 season due to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":445011,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[32579,8804,2973,62,2971,67,132,68,183581,183582],"class_list":{"0":"post-445010","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-auburn","9":"tag-auburn-tigers","10":"tag-sec","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-tigers","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us","16":"tag-war-eagle","17":"tag-wareagle"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115713949232524893","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=445010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445010\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/445011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=445010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=445010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=445010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}