{"id":26679,"date":"2014-12-03T16:16:00","date_gmt":"2014-12-03T16:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/celtics-smart-ready-to-return\/"},"modified":"2014-12-03T16:16:00","modified_gmt":"2014-12-03T16:16:00","slug":"celtics-smart-ready-to-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/celtics-smart-ready-to-return\/","title":{"rendered":"Celtics&#8217; Smart ready to return"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Boston, MA (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Boston Celtics rookie guard Marcus Smart is expected to play in Wednesday&#8217;s game against the Detroit Pistons, the team announced.<\/p>\n<p>Smart, the sixth overall pick in this year&#8217;s NBA Draft, has been sidelined since Nov. 7 with a sprained left ankle. The former Oklahoma State All- American has missed Boston&#8217;s last 10 games with the injury.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to being sidelined, Smart averaged 6.8 points, 2.6 rebounds, 1.2 assists and 1.2 steals in five games as Rajon Rondo&#8217;s backup at point guard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boston, MA (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Boston Celtics rookie guard Marcus Smart is expected to play in Wednesday&#8217;s game against the Detroit Pistons, the team announced. Smart, the sixth overall pick in this year&#8217;s NBA Draft, has been sidelined since Nov. 7 with a sprained left ankle. The former Oklahoma State All- American has missed Boston&#8217;s last [&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":[177,176,178],"class_list":["post-26679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nba","tag-boston","tag-boston-celtics","tag-celtics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26679","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=26679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26679\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}