{"id":438,"date":"2014-02-18T23:22:54","date_gmt":"2014-02-19T04:22:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nba\/?p=438"},"modified":"2014-02-18T23:25:44","modified_gmt":"2014-02-19T04:25:44","slug":"dion-waiters-throws-down-monster-dunk-injures-himself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nba\/2014\/02\/18\/dion-waiters-throws-down-monster-dunk-injures-himself\/","title":{"rendered":"Dion Waiters throws down monster dunk, injures himself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nba\/files\/2014\/02\/dionwaiters.jpg\" alt=\"dionwaiters\" width=\"567\" height=\"303\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-439\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nba\/files\/2014\/02\/dionwaiters.jpg 567w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nba\/files\/2014\/02\/dionwaiters-300x160.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 567px) 100vw, 567px\" \/><br \/>\nDion Waiters threw down a monster dunk on Tuesday night and then injured himself. Waiters was able to walk off the court an laugh about it but did not return for the second half.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EEJEgUosQCk\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dionwaiters3\">@dionwaiters3<\/a> has a hyperextended left knee, and will not return to the game.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Cleveland Cavaliers (@cavs) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cavs\/statuses\/435950184145903616\">February 19, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The Cavilers have listed him as having a hyperextended left knee. Entering Tuesday the 22-year-old was averaging 14.3 PPG and 2.9 RPG.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dion Waiters threw down a monster dunk on Tuesday night and then injured himself. Waiters was able to walk off the court an laugh about it but did not return for the second half. .@dionwaiters3 has a hyperextended left knee, and will not return to the game. &mdash; Cleveland Cavaliers (@cavs) February 19, 2014 The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":439,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,3,11],"tags":[197,12,5],"coauthors":[7],"class_list":{"0":"post-438","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba-injuries","8":"category-nba-news","9":"category-nba-topstory","10":"tag-dion-waiters","11":"tag-front","12":"tag-nba"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438","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=438"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":441,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438\/revisions\/441"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}