{"id":15977,"date":"2014-03-13T14:56:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-13T14:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/portlands-aldridge-sidelined-at-least-two-games\/"},"modified":"2014-03-13T14:56:00","modified_gmt":"2014-03-13T14:56:00","slug":"portlands-aldridge-sidelined-at-least-two-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/portlands-aldridge-sidelined-at-least-two-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Portland&#8217;s Aldridge sidelined at least two games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Portland, OR (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; An MRI Thursday confirmed a low back contusion that will keep Portland Trail Blazers All-Star forward LaMarcus Aldridge out at least two games.<\/p>\n<p>Aldridge left Wednesday&#8217;s loss to the Spurs in the third quarter after colliding with San Antonio center Aron Baynes. He was helped to the locker room and did not return.<\/p>\n<p>Portland will need its star big man healthy for the postseason push. Aldridge has enjoyed a breakout season, averaging career-highs with 23.4 points and 11.1 rebounds per contest.<\/p>\n<p>He is expected to sit the next two games and will be re-evaluated later in the week.<\/p>\n<p>The Blazers will also be without reserve guard Mo Williams, who has a right hip strain. Williams is expected to miss about two weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Portland, OR (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; An MRI Thursday confirmed a low back contusion that will keep Portland Trail Blazers All-Star forward LaMarcus Aldridge out at least two games. Aldridge left Wednesday&#8217;s loss to the Spurs in the third quarter after colliding with San Antonio center Aron Baynes. He was helped to the locker room and did [&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":[237,236,238],"class_list":["post-15977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nba","tag-portland","tag-portland-trail-blazers","tag-trail-blazers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15977","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=15977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15977\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}