{"id":357,"date":"2014-01-17T16:42:36","date_gmt":"2014-01-17T21:42:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nba\/?p=357"},"modified":"2014-01-17T16:42:36","modified_gmt":"2014-01-17T21:42:36","slug":"gal-mekel-has-surgery-on-right-knee-out-indefinitely","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nba\/2014\/01\/17\/gal-mekel-has-surgery-on-right-knee-out-indefinitely\/","title":{"rendered":"Gal Mekel has surgery on right knee, out indefinitely"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nba\/files\/2014\/01\/galmekel.jpg\" alt=\"galmekel\" width=\"594\" height=\"383\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-358\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nba\/files\/2014\/01\/galmekel.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nba\/files\/2014\/01\/galmekel-300x194.jpg 300w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nba\/files\/2014\/01\/galmekel-85x54.jpg 85w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><br \/>\nThe Dallas Mavericks will be without Gal Mekel indefinitely after the guard underwent surgery on his right knee.<\/p>\n<p>Mekel had surgery for a lateral meniscus tear on Friday. He should miss the next six weeks.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>Per <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MavsPR\">@MavsPR<\/a>, Rookie Gal Mekel underwent surgery for a torn lateral meniscus in his right knee. No timetable has been set for his return.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Dallas Mavericks (@dallasmavs) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dallasmavs\/statuses\/424280639370579968\">January 17, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Expect Shane Larkin to get the time Mekel had been getting, Mekel had been playing just over nine minutes per game and had 2.4 PPG, 0.9 RPG and 2.1 APG.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Dallas Mavericks will be without Gal Mekel indefinitely after the guard underwent surgery on his right knee. Mekel had surgery for a lateral meniscus tear on Friday. He should miss the next six weeks. Per @MavsPR, Rookie Gal Mekel underwent surgery for a torn lateral meniscus in his right knee. No timetable has been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":358,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[15,184,5],"coauthors":[7],"class_list":{"0":"post-357","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba-news","8":"tag-dallas-mavericks","9":"tag-gal-mekel","10":"tag-nba"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}