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2026-27 NBA season · Stats

NBA tear stats

Charts and breakdowns for every tracked ACL and Achilles tear of the 2026-27 NBA season. Computed live from the same data as the tracker; NBA only.

2026-27 (current)All seasons — soon

NBA ACL & Achilles Tear Stats: 2026-27 Season

Tracked tears
6
ACL
2
Achilles
4
In games
67%
4 of 6 · 2 practice/offseason
Median tear → surgery
1 days
n=5 with a reported surgery date

Tears per month · cumulative

ACLAchillesCumulative
0123Apr 1: 1 AchillesAprMayJunJul 1: 1 ACLJulAugSep 1: 1 ACLSepOct 1: 3 AchillesOctNov6 total (line: own scale)

Monthly buckets: NBA tears are sparse, so weeks would be mostly empty. Starts with the season's earliest tracked tear (Apr).

Where tears happened

In games
4 1·3
Practice / offseason

Data as of Oct 28, 2026 · NBA 2026-27 only. Carryovers from earlier seasons are excluded (4 players from 2025-26 still in recovery).

2 1·1

Games include Summer League, preseason, regular season and playoffs.

Contact vs non-contact

Non-contact
1 0·1
Contact
0 0·0
Not reported
5 2·3

Only 1 of 6 tears have a reported mechanism; unknowns stay unknown.

By position

Guards
4 1·3
Wings / forwards
0 0·0
Bigs
2 1·1

Buckets from the listed position (first listed): G / PG / SG → Guards, F / SF / PF / GF → Wings / forwards, C / FC → Bigs.

Team leaderboard

MIN
1 0·1
OKC
1 0·1
PHI
1 0·1
SAC
1 0·1
ATL
1 1·0
WAS
1 1·0

6 of 30 teams have at least one tracked tear. Team = current team on the tracker.

Recovery stage now

Diagnosis
1
Surgery
5

Latest reported stage per player. 1 of 6 have no update past diagnosis — mostly no public news, not necessarily no progress.

Days from tear to surgery

PlayerTearTear dateDays
Donte DiVincenzo MINAchillesApr 251
Ariel Hukporti PHIAchillesOct 51
Otega Oweh OKCAchillesOct 131
Ben Simmons SACAchillesOct 182
Jamir Watkins WASACLJul 921

Only players with a reported surgery date (n=5). Median 1 days. Longest: Jamir Watkins, 21 days.

Notable

Repeat tears
None recorded among tracked 2026-27 players.
Youngest
Henri Veesaar (ATL) · C · 22 at tear
Oldest
Ben Simmons (SAC) · G · 30 at tear
Average age
25.5 at tear (all 6 have a verified birth date)
Busiest team
No team has more than one — 6 different teams
Year-over-year — coming when past seasons are added
Season-to-season comparisons will appear here once earlier seasons are in the database. No numbers are shown until then.