{"id":16523,"date":"2014-03-21T20:21:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-21T20:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/nets-lopez-undergoes-successful-ankle-surgery\/"},"modified":"2014-03-21T20:21:00","modified_gmt":"2014-03-21T20:21:00","slug":"nets-lopez-undergoes-successful-ankle-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/nets-lopez-undergoes-successful-ankle-surgery\/","title":{"rendered":"Nets&#8217; Lopez undergoes successful ankle surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brooklyn, NY (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Brooklyn Nets center Brook Lopez underwent successful left ankle surgery on March 3, general manager Billy King announced on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The procedure, performed by Nets&#8217; foot and ankle specialist Dr. Martin O&#8217;Malley, included tightening the lateral ankle ligaments, as well as repairing a torn tendon. Lopez suffered left ankle sprains twice this season; the first occurring on Nov. 15 at Phoenix, and the second on Dec. 12 versus the Los Angeles Clippers, resulting in a combined nine games missed.<\/p>\n<p>Lopez, who underwent season-ending surgery on Jan. 4 to repair a fractured fifth metatarsal of his right foot, is expected to return to basketball activities sometime in June.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brooklyn, NY (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Brooklyn Nets center Brook Lopez underwent successful left ankle surgery on March 3, general manager Billy King announced on Friday. The procedure, performed by Nets&#8217; foot and ankle specialist Dr. Martin O&#8217;Malley, included tightening the lateral ankle ligaments, as well as repairing a torn tendon. Lopez suffered left ankle sprains twice [&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":[160,159,158],"class_list":["post-16523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nba","tag-nets","tag-new-jersey","tag-new-jersey-nets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16523","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=16523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16523\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}