{"id":27261,"date":"2014-12-15T18:06:00","date_gmt":"2014-12-15T18:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/celtics-thornton-likely-out-two-weeks\/"},"modified":"2014-12-15T18:06:00","modified_gmt":"2014-12-15T18:06:00","slug":"celtics-thornton-likely-out-two-weeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/celtics-thornton-likely-out-two-weeks\/","title":{"rendered":"Celtics&#8217; Thornton likely out two weeks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Philadelphia, PA (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Boston Celtics guard Marcus Thornton is expected to be sidelined approximately two weeks due to a partially torn calf muscle.<\/p>\n<p>Thornton sustained the injury during Sunday&#8217;s practice and did not travel with the team for Monday&#8217;s game at Philadelphia.<\/p>\n<p>The sixth-year pro had been one of the Celtics&#8217; most effective scorers as of late, averaging 13.3 points while going 8-of-18 from 3-point range over the last four games. For the season, Thornton is averaging 8.2 points and made 42.3 percent of his 3-point tries over 20 games.<\/p>\n<p>While Thornton will not play, Boston will have guard Avery Bradley back for Monday&#8217;s tilt after he sat out Friday&#8217;s game against the New York Knicks with an illness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Philadelphia, PA (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Boston Celtics guard Marcus Thornton is expected to be sidelined approximately two weeks due to a partially torn calf muscle. Thornton sustained the injury during Sunday&#8217;s practice and did not travel with the team for Monday&#8217;s game at Philadelphia. The sixth-year pro had been one of the Celtics&#8217; most effective scorers [&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-27261","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\/27261","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=27261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27261\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}