{"id":11719,"date":"2013-12-19T15:35:00","date_gmt":"2013-12-19T15:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/pacers-granger-set-for-friday-debut\/"},"modified":"2013-12-20T07:00:05","modified_gmt":"2013-12-20T07:00:05","slug":"pacers-granger-set-for-friday-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/pacers-granger-set-for-friday-debut\/","title":{"rendered":"Pacers&#8217; Granger set for Friday debut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Indianapolis, IN (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Indiana Pacers forward Danny Granger is expected to make his season debut on Friday after missing the team&#8217;s first 25 games with a left calf strain.<\/p>\n<p>Granger appeared in just five games last season before a lingering left knee injury required season-ending surgery. While attempting a comeback in early October, Granger pulled a calf in the same left leg.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There&#8217;s no way to simulate game intensity,&#8221; Indiana head coach Frank Vogel said of Granger&#8217;s return to the court. &#8220;There&#8217;s going to be an adjustment period while he gets used to that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Granger, selected 17th overall by the Pacers in 2005, has averaged 18.1 points, 5.2 rebounds and 2.0 assists over 515 games (423 starts) over eight NBA seasons, all in Indiana.<\/p>\n<p>The 30-year-old swingman will make his first regular-season appearance since March 3 when the 20-5 Pacers host Houston on Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indianapolis, IN (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Indiana Pacers forward Danny Granger is expected to make his season debut on Friday after missing the team&#8217;s first 25 games with a left calf strain. Granger appeared in just five games last season before a lingering left knee injury required season-ending surgery. While attempting a comeback in early October, Granger [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[92,91,93],"class_list":["post-11719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nba","tag-indiana","tag-indiana-pacers","tag-pacers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11719"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11731,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11719\/revisions\/11731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}