Timberwolves guard Donte DiVincenzo has formally been diagnosed with a ruptured right Achilles tendon after undergoing an MRI, the team announced in a press release.
ESPN’s Shams Charania first reported that DiVincenzo had suffered a torn Achilles. The injury occurred in the first quarter of Saturday’s Game 4 victory over Denver.
According to the Wolves, DiVincenzo is undergoing surgery on Sunday afternoon in New York. Dr. Martin O’Malley will be the surgeon after performing a similar surgery last year for Jayson Tatum, notes Tim Bontemps of ESPN (via Twitter).
The 17th overall pick in the 2018 draft, DiVincenzo started all 82 regular season games for Minnesota in 2025/26. The 29-year-old averaged 12.2 points, 4.1 rebounds, 3.8 assists and 1.3 steals in 30.4 minutes per game while shooting 37.9% from long distance and providing his typical solid defense.
As Jon Krawczynski of The Athletic writes, the Wolves had a mix of emotions after Game 4. They were sad to lose DiVincenzo and Anthony Edwards, who is expected to miss multiple weeks due to a left knee injury, but pleased with the way they performed in their absence to take a 3-1 series lead.
“Just proud of the guys, stepping up, fighting for each other — literally and figuratively,” head coach Chris Finch said. “These teams don’t like each other, there’s just no secret. You play each other this many times where things are at stake, even a Christmas Day game is a battle, felt like a playoff game. It’s how it goes.”
Backup big man Naz Reid said the Wolves will be thinking of DiVincenzo and Edwards as they look to close out the first-round series against their Northwest Division rival on Monday, Krawczynski adds.
“I think they’ll be with us,” Reid said. “They understand. We understand. We know what it takes. It’s not going to be easy, not at all. We gotta go out there and do what we gotta do.”
DiVincenzo is entering the final season of his contract, which will pay him about $12.5MM in 2026/27. He’ll be an unrestricted free agent next year unless he signs an extension before then.
Donte played all 82 didn’t seem to be listed with soreness had the week off being 6 seed. Sucks that it seems like a freak injury.
Het well Donte 🙏.
Now it’s a year for a comeback. Man I don’t bring him back for playoffs.
At the risk of sounding cruel, I’m just gonna put it out there anyway..The wolves don’t really need Donte. Sure he’s a really good knock down shooter but as long as the other guys step up, they’ll be fine. Ant man just needs consistency from Randle and the primary rotational players..Ayo, Jaden, Naz and especially Gobert. Those guys should be enough to keep things even keeled throughout the playoffs. In the meantime, they should let Donte rest. He’s big when he’s healthy but I just don’t think he’s gonna be truly effective playing while hurt in these playoffs..Disagree if yall want. Just my thoughts. Go Wolves. Send Denver home in 5. Lol
I actually do disagree and think they shouldn’t let him rest after rupturing his achilles. Donte needs to be out on the floor.
It’s only so much the human body can take. Lol but maybe you’re just being sarcastic.
He will be fine playing in a wheelchair out there
Correction to my last comment. Donte is done anyways since he has to recover from that Achilles injury, so the team needs to keep that next man up mentality going throughout the rest of the playoffs. I’m looking at Bones, and Ayo but I’m not really worried about Ayo.