{"id":28770,"date":"2015-01-22T15:53:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-22T15:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/lakers-bryant-has-tear-in-rotator-cuff\/"},"modified":"2015-01-23T00:20:36","modified_gmt":"2015-01-23T00:20:36","slug":"lakers-bryant-has-tear-in-rotator-cuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/lakers-bryant-has-tear-in-rotator-cuff\/","title":{"rendered":"Lakers&#8217; Bryant has tear in rotator cuff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>San Antonio, TX (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Los Angeles Lakers star Kobe Bryant has a tear in his right rotator cuff, the team tweeted Thursday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Bryant played through the injury in Wednesday&#8217;s loss to the Pelicans, shooting 6-of-14 from the floor for 14 points over 30 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>The 36-year-old guard was favoring the shoulder in the fourth quarter after throwing down a dunk and even hit a left-handed floater before exiting to the locker room.<\/p>\n<p>Preliminary results of Thursday&#8217;s MRI revealed the extent of the injury, and the team announced the future Hall-of-Famer will fly back to Los Angeles for further evaluation.<\/p>\n<p>Bryant has been in-and-out of the lineup for the past month. He is averaging 22.3 points per game but making just 37.3 percent of his shots. The 19-year veteran has never shot worse than 41.7 percent, and that came during his rookie season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>San Antonio, TX (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Los Angeles Lakers star Kobe Bryant has a tear in his right rotator cuff, the team tweeted Thursday afternoon. Bryant played through the injury in Wednesday&#8217;s loss to the Pelicans, shooting 6-of-14 from the floor for 14 points over 30 minutes. The 36-year-old guard was favoring the shoulder in 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-28770","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\/28770","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=28770"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28780,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28770\/revisions\/28780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}