{"id":13466,"date":"2014-01-29T19:46:00","date_gmt":"2014-01-29T19:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/pelicans-davis-out-with-sore-finger\/"},"modified":"2014-01-30T01:30:10","modified_gmt":"2014-01-30T01:30:10","slug":"pelicans-davis-out-with-sore-finger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/pelicans-davis-out-with-sore-finger\/","title":{"rendered":"Pelicans&#8217; Davis out with sore finger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Minneapolis, MN (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; New Orleans Pelicans center Anthony Davis was held out of Wednesday night&#8217;s game against Minnesota because of soreness in his left index finger.<\/p>\n<p>The former No. 1 draft pick dislocated the finger near the end of Tuesday&#8217;s win over Cleveland.<\/p>\n<p>Pelicans coach Monty Williams said keeping Davis out of the lineup &#8220;just makes sense.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We could&#8217;ve held him out last night, but he was so adamant about playing that I let him go,&#8221; Williams said, according to the team&#8217;s website. &#8220;Now we have to be his brains and make sure he doesn&#8217;t hurt his finger more. But he should be ready for our next game.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Davis is averaging 20.4 points, 10.4 rebounds and an NBA-best 3.3 blocks in 37 games this season. He missed seven games in December with a broken left hand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minneapolis, MN (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; New Orleans Pelicans center Anthony Davis was held out of Wednesday night&#8217;s game against Minnesota because of soreness in his left index finger. The former No. 1 draft pick dislocated the finger near the end of Tuesday&#8217;s win over Cleveland. Pelicans coach Monty Williams said keeping Davis out of the lineup [&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":[147,146,145],"class_list":["post-13466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nba","tag-hornets","tag-new-orleans","tag-new-orleans-hornets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13466","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=13466"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13468,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13466\/revisions\/13468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}