{"id":28785,"date":"2015-01-22T21:27:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-22T21:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/blazers-aldridge-sidelined-6-8-weeks\/"},"modified":"2015-01-22T21:27:00","modified_gmt":"2015-01-22T21:27:00","slug":"blazers-aldridge-sidelined-6-8-weeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/blazers-aldridge-sidelined-6-8-weeks\/","title":{"rendered":"Blazers&#8217; Aldridge sidelined 6-8 weeks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Portland, OR (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Portland Trail Blazers forward LaMarcus Aldridge will miss up to two months with a thumb injury, the team announced Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Aldridge was injured in Monday&#8217;s win over the Kings and sat out Wednesday&#8217;s loss to the Suns. A second MRI on Thursday revealed a radial collateral ligament tear in his left thumb, which will require surgery.<\/p>\n<p>Aldridge was likely headed to his fourth straight All-Star Game this season thanks to averaging a double-double of 23.2 points and 10.2 rebounds over his first 38 games.<\/p>\n<p>His efforts have helped the Blazers jump out to a healthy lead atop the Northwest Division. They entered Thursday&#8217;s games 8 1\/2 games ahead of the second-place Thunder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Portland, OR (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Portland Trail Blazers forward LaMarcus Aldridge will miss up to two months with a thumb injury, the team announced Thursday. Aldridge was injured in Monday&#8217;s win over the Kings and sat out Wednesday&#8217;s loss to the Suns. A second MRI on Thursday revealed a radial collateral ligament tear in his left [&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":[237,236,238],"class_list":["post-28785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nba","tag-portland","tag-portland-trail-blazers","tag-trail-blazers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28785","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=28785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28785\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}