{"id":21314,"date":"2014-07-25T14:16:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-25T14:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/dream-coach-cooper-has-surgery-for-tongue-cancer\/"},"modified":"2014-07-26T05:20:07","modified_gmt":"2014-07-26T05:20:07","slug":"dream-coach-cooper-has-surgery-for-tongue-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/dream-coach-cooper-has-surgery-for-tongue-cancer\/","title":{"rendered":"Dream coach Cooper has surgery for tongue cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Atlanta, GA (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Atlanta Dream announced that head coach Michael Cooper had surgery for tongue cancer on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The team said in a statement Friday that the procedure was successful and Cooper &#8220;will be back coaching soon.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Assistant Karleen Thompson has been filling in for Cooper, who the team announced Monday was diagnosed with early stage tongue cancer.<\/p>\n<p>Cooper, who won five NBA titles as a player with the Los Angeles Lakers and two WNBA titles as a coach with the Los Angeles Sparks, is in his first season with Atlanta. The Dream lead the Eastern Conference with a 15-7 record.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Atlanta, GA (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Atlanta Dream announced that head coach Michael Cooper had surgery for tongue cancer on Thursday. The team said in a statement Friday that the procedure was successful and Cooper &#8220;will be back coaching soon.&#8221; Assistant Karleen Thompson has been filling in for Cooper, who the team announced Monday was diagnosed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[233],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21314","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=21314"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21335,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21314\/revisions\/21335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}