{"id":18240,"date":"2014-05-06T18:24:00","date_gmt":"2014-05-06T18:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/sixers-g-carter-williams-has-shoulder-surgery\/"},"modified":"2014-05-06T18:24:00","modified_gmt":"2014-05-06T18:24:00","slug":"sixers-g-carter-williams-has-shoulder-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/sixers-g-carter-williams-has-shoulder-surgery\/","title":{"rendered":"Sixers&#8217; G Carter-Williams has shoulder surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Philadelphia, PA (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; One day after winning the NBA&#8217;s Rookie of the Year award, Philadelphia 76ers point guard Michael Carter-Williams underwent surgery on his right shoulder.<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday&#8217;s procedure was to repair the labrum and was performed by Dr. David Altchek at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The health of our players is our primary concern,&#8221; said Sixers general manager Sam Hinkie. &#8220;There were a number of healthy discussions between Michael, our medical team, several medical specialists and Michael&#8217;s representatives. After careful consideration and thoughtful research, we collectively agreed that it was in Michael&#8217;s best interest to move forward with the procedure now and allow for maximum recovery time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Carter-Williams, the 11th overall pick of last year&#8217;s draft out of Syracuse, averaged 16.7 points, 6.3 assists and 6.2 rebounds. He joined Oscar Robertson (1960-61) and Alvin Adams (1975-76) as the only players since 1950-51 to lead all rookies in those categories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Philadelphia, PA (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; One day after winning the NBA&#8217;s Rookie of the Year award, Philadelphia 76ers point guard Michael Carter-Williams underwent surgery on his right shoulder. Tuesday&#8217;s procedure was to repair the labrum and was performed by Dr. David Altchek at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York. &#8220;The health of our players [&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":[65,64,63],"class_list":["post-18240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nba","tag-76ers","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-76ers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18240","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=18240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18240\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}