{"id":13000,"date":"2014-01-17T15:53:00","date_gmt":"2014-01-17T15:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/mavs-g-mekel-undergoes-knee-surgery\/"},"modified":"2014-01-17T15:53:00","modified_gmt":"2014-01-17T15:53:00","slug":"mavs-g-mekel-undergoes-knee-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/mavs-g-mekel-undergoes-knee-surgery\/","title":{"rendered":"Mavs G Mekel undergoes knee surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dallas, TX (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Dallas Mavericks point guard Gal Mekel underwent arthroscopic surgery to repair a torn meniscus in his right knee on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Mekel, who signed with Dallas this offseason after leading Maccabi Haifa to the Israeli League championship last season, became the second Israeli-born NBA player when he inked a deal with the Mavs last July. He is a two-time MVP of the Israeli League.<\/p>\n<p>Mekel has appeared in 30 games in his rookie season, averaging 2.4 points and 2.1 assists per contest.<\/p>\n<p>There is no timetable for his return.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dallas, TX (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Dallas Mavericks point guard Gal Mekel underwent arthroscopic surgery to repair a torn meniscus in his right knee on Friday. Mekel, who signed with Dallas this offseason after leading Maccabi Haifa to the Israeli League championship last season, became the second Israeli-born NBA player when he inked a deal with the [&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":[149,251,252],"class_list":["post-13000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nba","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-mavericks","tag-mavericks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13000","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=13000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13000\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}