{"id":25576,"date":"2014-11-09T17:42:00","date_gmt":"2014-11-09T17:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/cavs-dellavedova-diagnosed-with-mcl-sprain\/"},"modified":"2014-11-09T17:42:00","modified_gmt":"2014-11-09T17:42:00","slug":"cavs-dellavedova-diagnosed-with-mcl-sprain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/cavs-dellavedova-diagnosed-with-mcl-sprain\/","title":{"rendered":"Cavs&#8217; Dellavedova diagnosed with MCL sprain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cleveland, OH (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Cleveland Cavaliers guard Matthew Dellavedova has been diagnosed with a sprained left MCL and is expected to miss 4-to-6 weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Dellavedova was injured in the fourth quarter of a 101-82 loss in Portland on Tuesday. He was held out of the final two games of Cleveland&#8217;s four-game road trip and was diagnosed with the MCL sprain upon returning home.<\/p>\n<p>The Australian native made the Cavaliers as an undrafted free agent last season and averaged 4.7 points and 2.6 assists per game.<\/p>\n<p>Sixth man Dion Waiters also suffered a lower back contusion on Cleveland&#8217;s road trip, although his injury is much less serious. Waiters left Friday&#8217;s win in Denver after Nuggets forward Darrell Arthur committed a hard foul, forcing Waiters to fall on his back. Arthur was ejected on the play.<\/p>\n<p>Waiters, who is averaging 9.4 points this season, is questionable to play in Cleveland&#8217;s home game against the Pelicans on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cleveland, OH (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Cleveland Cavaliers guard Matthew Dellavedova has been diagnosed with a sprained left MCL and is expected to miss 4-to-6 weeks. Dellavedova was injured in the fourth quarter of a 101-82 loss in Portland on Tuesday. He was held out of the final two games of Cleveland&#8217;s four-game road trip and was [&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":[124,54,123],"class_list":["post-25576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nba","tag-cavaliers","tag-cleveland","tag-cleveland-cavaliers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25576","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=25576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25576\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}