{"id":12938,"date":"2014-01-16T15:32:00","date_gmt":"2014-01-16T15:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/celtics-confirm-friday-return-for-rondo\/"},"modified":"2014-01-16T15:32:00","modified_gmt":"2014-01-16T15:32:00","slug":"celtics-confirm-friday-return-for-rondo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/celtics-confirm-friday-return-for-rondo\/","title":{"rendered":"Celtics confirm Friday return for Rondo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Boston, MA (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Boston Celtics president of basketball operations Danny Ainge announced Thursday that point guard Rajon Rondo will indeed make his return to the court for Friday&#8217;s game against the Los Angeles Lakers.<\/p>\n<p>Speculation had been running for several days that Rondo was set to make his comeback from a torn ACL suffered nearly a year ago. The four-time All-Star tweeted &#8220;29,233,280 secs&#8221; on Monday, an apparent reference to the 338-day time frame between his surgery last February and Friday&#8217;s contest. He then practiced with Boston&#8217;s NBA Development League affiliate, the Maine Red Claws, on Wednesday and came out of the workout without any setbacks.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He looked good and he&#8217;s ready to play. That&#8217;s all I was looking for,&#8221; said Ainge of the workout.<\/p>\n<p>Both Ainge and head coach Brad Stevens said that Rondo, who sustained the injury to his right knee in a game at Atlanta on Jan. 25 of last season, will likely play approximately 20 minutes in his anticipated season debut.<\/p>\n<p>Without Rondo in the lineup, the Celtics have gone just 14-26 this season, the fourth-worst record in the Eastern Conference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boston, MA (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Boston Celtics president of basketball operations Danny Ainge announced Thursday that point guard Rajon Rondo will indeed make his return to the court for Friday&#8217;s game against the Los Angeles Lakers. Speculation had been running for several days that Rondo was set to make his comeback from a torn ACL suffered [&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":[177,176,178],"class_list":["post-12938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nba","tag-boston","tag-boston-celtics","tag-celtics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12938","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=12938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12938\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}