{"id":13888,"date":"2014-02-07T17:24:00","date_gmt":"2014-02-07T17:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/pacers-stephenson-wont-play-friday\/"},"modified":"2014-02-07T17:24:00","modified_gmt":"2014-02-07T17:24:00","slug":"pacers-stephenson-wont-play-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/pacers-stephenson-wont-play-friday\/","title":{"rendered":"Pacers&#8217; Stephenson won&#8217;t play Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Indianapolis, IN (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Indiana Pacers guard Lance Stephenson will miss Friday&#8217;s tilt with the Portland Trail Blazers due to a sore lower back suffered earlier in the week.<\/p>\n<p>Stephenson converted an acrobatic three-point play early in the third quarter of Tuesday&#8217;s 89-85 win over Atlanta, but fell awkwardly on his back and left the contest.<\/p>\n<p>Stephenson, who leads the NBA with four triple-doubles this season, has started every game he&#8217;s played in. He is averaging 14.1 points, 7.2 rebounds and 5.3 assists for the 38-10 Pacers.<\/p>\n<p>Danny Granger will make his second start of the season in Stephenson&#8217;s absence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indianapolis, IN (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Indiana Pacers guard Lance Stephenson will miss Friday&#8217;s tilt with the Portland Trail Blazers due to a sore lower back suffered earlier in the week. Stephenson converted an acrobatic three-point play early in the third quarter of Tuesday&#8217;s 89-85 win over Atlanta, but fell awkwardly on his back and left 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":[92,91,93],"class_list":["post-13888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nba","tag-indiana","tag-indiana-pacers","tag-pacers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13888","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=13888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13888\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}