{"id":12227,"date":"2013-12-31T19:22:00","date_gmt":"2013-12-31T19:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/hawks-horford-out-for-season\/"},"modified":"2013-12-31T19:22:00","modified_gmt":"2013-12-31T19:22:00","slug":"hawks-horford-out-for-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/hawks-horford-out-for-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Hawks&#8217; Horford out for season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Atlanta, GA (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Atlanta Hawks announced Tuesday that leading scorer Al Horford underwent season-ending surgery to repair a complete tear of his right pectoral muscle he sustained last week.<\/p>\n<p>Horford suffered the injury during Atlanta&#8217;s 127-125 double-overtime win at Cleveland last Thursday and has sat out the club&#8217;s last three games.<\/p>\n<p>The two-time All-Star center was averaging a career-best 18.6 points along with 8.4 rebounds and 2.6 assists in 29 games this season. Horford also leads the Hawks in rebounding, field goal percentage (.567) and blocks (1.5).<\/p>\n<p>Veteran Elton Brand has taken over as Atlanta&#8217;s starting center in Brand&#8217;s absence.<\/p>\n<p>The Hawks currently reside in third place in the Eastern Conference and trail first-place Miami by 6 1\/2 games in the Southeast Division.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Atlanta, GA (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Atlanta Hawks announced Tuesday that leading scorer Al Horford underwent season-ending surgery to repair a complete tear of his right pectoral muscle he sustained last week. Horford suffered the injury during Atlanta&#8217;s 127-125 double-overtime win at Cleveland last Thursday and has sat out the club&#8217;s last three games. The two-time [&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":[18,89,90],"class_list":["post-12227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nba","tag-atlanta","tag-atlanta-hawks","tag-hawks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12227","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=12227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12227\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}