{"id":24291,"date":"2014-10-07T01:11:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-07T01:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/lakers-young-out-eight-weeks-after-surgery\/"},"modified":"2014-10-07T01:11:00","modified_gmt":"2014-10-07T01:11:00","slug":"lakers-young-out-eight-weeks-after-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/lakers-young-out-eight-weeks-after-surgery\/","title":{"rendered":"Lakers&#8217; Young out eight weeks after surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>El Segundo, CA (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Los Angeles Lakers guard Nick Young will miss the next eight weeks after having surgery on Monday to have a torn thumb ligament repaired.<\/p>\n<p>Young was hurt in practice last Thursday, and an MRI exam on Friday revealed a complete tear of the radial collateral ligament.<\/p>\n<p>Young re-signed with the Lakers in July after averaging a career-high 17.9 points in 64 games last season, his first with the club.<\/p>\n<p>The 29-year-old Los Angeles native has averaged 12.2 points in 480 career games with the Wizards, Clippers, 76ers and Lakers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>El Segundo, CA (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Los Angeles Lakers guard Nick Young will miss the next eight weeks after having surgery on Monday to have a torn thumb ligament repaired. Young was hurt in practice last Thursday, and an MRI exam on Friday revealed a complete tear of the radial collateral ligament. Young re-signed with 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":[22,21,20],"class_list":["post-24291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nba","tag-lakers","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-lakers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24291","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=24291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24291\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}