{"id":25079,"date":"2014-10-29T01:52:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-29T01:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/lakers-randle-breaks-leg-in-1st-nba-game\/"},"modified":"2014-10-29T06:20:28","modified_gmt":"2014-10-29T06:20:28","slug":"lakers-randle-breaks-leg-in-1st-nba-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/lakers-randle-breaks-leg-in-1st-nba-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Lakers&#8217; Randle breaks leg in 1st NBA game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Los Angeles, CA (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Los Angeles Lakers rookie forward Julius Randle suffered a broken right leg in his first NBA game, Tuesday&#8217;s 108-90 loss to the Houston Rockets.<\/p>\n<p>With just under seven minutes to play and the game well in hand for Houston, Randle fell hard after a drive to the lane. The No. 7 overall draft pick out of Kentucky grasped his leg, and the entire LA team and medical staff eventually made it out onto the court to show support for the rookie.<\/p>\n<p>After several minutes, Randle&#8217;s leg was placed in an air cast and he was helped onto a stretcher and wheeled off the court.<\/p>\n<p>The Lakers said after the game that he suffered a broken tibia.<\/p>\n<p>The 6-foot-9, 250-pound Randle was 1-for-3 from the floor for two points in 13 1\/2 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>He spent just one season at Kentucky before declaring for the draft, averaging 15.0 points, 10.4 rebounds and 1.4 assists in 40 games for the Wildcats.<\/p>\n<p>Randle was named the SEC&#8217;s Freshman of the Year and was a First-Team All-SEC choice. He led the nation with 24 double-doubles and helped Kentucky reach the NCAA Tournament championship game last spring.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Los Angeles, CA (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Los Angeles Lakers rookie forward Julius Randle suffered a broken right leg in his first NBA game, Tuesday&#8217;s 108-90 loss to the Houston Rockets. With just under seven minutes to play and the game well in hand for Houston, Randle fell hard after a drive to the lane. The No. [&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-25079","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\/25079","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=25079"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25080,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25079\/revisions\/25080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}