{"id":13410,"date":"2014-01-28T17:05:00","date_gmt":"2014-01-28T17:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/t-wolves-pekovic-out-with-ankle-injury\/"},"modified":"2014-01-28T17:05:00","modified_gmt":"2014-01-28T17:05:00","slug":"t-wolves-pekovic-out-with-ankle-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/t-wolves-pekovic-out-with-ankle-injury\/","title":{"rendered":"T-Wolves&#8217; Pekovic out with ankle injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Minneapolis, MN (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Minnesota Timberwolves center Nikola Pekovic is expected to be sidelined at least a week after an MRI taken Tuesday revealed bursitis in his right ankle.<\/p>\n<p>Pekovic played only six minutes before exiting Monday&#8217;s game against the Chicago Bulls in the first quarter due to discomfort in the ankle. The Timberwolves announced Tuesday that the 6-foot-11 Montenegro native will be held out of basketball activities for 7-to-10 days before undergoing a re- evaluation.<\/p>\n<p>The 28-year-old Pekovic is in the midst of a career season, having averaged personal bests of 18.0 points and 9.1 rebounds over 44 games thus far in 2013-14.<\/p>\n<p>Ronny Turiaf took over for Pekovic in Monday&#8217;s game and scored a season-best 14 points to help Minnesota to a 95-86 win.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minneapolis, MN (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Minnesota Timberwolves center Nikola Pekovic is expected to be sidelined at least a week after an MRI taken Tuesday revealed bursitis in his right ankle. Pekovic played only six minutes before exiting Monday&#8217;s game against the Chicago Bulls in the first quarter due to discomfort in the ankle. The Timberwolves announced [&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":[72,220,221],"class_list":["post-13410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nba","tag-minnesota","tag-minnesota-timberwolves","tag-timberwolves"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13410","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=13410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13410\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}