{"id":313,"date":"2013-12-19T16:00:18","date_gmt":"2013-12-19T21:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nba\/?p=313"},"modified":"2013-12-19T16:00:18","modified_gmt":"2013-12-19T21:00:18","slug":"kobe-bryant-to-miss-six-weeks-with-knee-fracture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nba\/2013\/12\/19\/kobe-bryant-to-miss-six-weeks-with-knee-fracture\/","title":{"rendered":"Kobe Bryant to miss six weeks with knee fracture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_300\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-300\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nba\/files\/2013\/12\/kobebryant.jpg\" alt=\"getty images\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" class=\"size-full wp-image-300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nba\/files\/2013\/12\/kobebryant.jpg 594w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nba\/files\/2013\/12\/kobebryant-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-300\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">getty images<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nThe Los Angeles Lakers are expected to be without Kobe Bryant for the next six weeks. Bryant has a fracture in his left knee.<\/p>\n<p>Lakers coach Mike D&#8217;Antoni expressed disappointment about the news. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou hate it for Kobe. He\u2019s worked so hard to get back\u201d  D&#8217;Antoni said. <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>Injury Update: Kobe Bryant has a fracture of the lateral tibial plateau in his left knee. He is expected to miss 6 weeks.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Los Angeles Lakers (@Lakers) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Lakers\/statuses\/413772173505867779\">December 19, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Xavier Henry will take over the duties at point guard for the Lakers. In Bryant&#8217;s six games this season he had averaged 13.8 points per game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Los Angeles Lakers are expected to be without Kobe Bryant for the next six weeks. Bryant has a fracture in his left knee. Lakers coach Mike D&#8217;Antoni expressed disappointment about the news. \u201cYou hate it for Kobe. He\u2019s worked so hard to get back\u201d D&#8217;Antoni said. Injury Update: Kobe Bryant has a fracture of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":300,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[12,13,14,5],"coauthors":[7],"class_list":{"0":"post-313","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba-news","8":"tag-front","9":"tag-kobe-bryant","10":"tag-los-angeles-lakers","11":"tag-nba"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}