{"id":29039,"date":"2015-01-28T18:57:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-28T18:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/lakers-bryant-undergoes-season-ending-shoulder-surgery\/"},"modified":"2015-01-28T18:57:00","modified_gmt":"2015-01-28T18:57:00","slug":"lakers-bryant-undergoes-season-ending-shoulder-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/lakers-bryant-undergoes-season-ending-shoulder-surgery\/","title":{"rendered":"Lakers&#8217; Bryant undergoes season-ending shoulder surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>El Segundo, CA (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Los Angeles Lakers guard Kobe Bryant had successful surgery to repair a torn rotator cuff in his right shoulder.<\/p>\n<p>The procedure, performed by Drs. Neal ElAttrache and Steve Lombardo on Wednesday morning, lasted two hours.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I expect Kobe to make a full recovery and if all goes as expected, he should be ready for the start of the season,&#8221; said ElAttrache, who also noted recovery time will be approximately nine months.<\/p>\n<p>The 19-year veteran and five-time NBA champion suffered the injury in last Wednesday&#8217;s 96-80 loss at New Orleans. It&#8217;s the third straight year Bryant has endured a season-ending injury, after a torn Achilles tendon in April 2013 and a broken bone in his knee last season.<\/p>\n<p>The 36-year-old Bryant averaged 22.3 points, 5.7 rebounds and 5.6 assists in 35 games this season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>El Segundo, CA (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Los Angeles Lakers guard Kobe Bryant had successful surgery to repair a torn rotator cuff in his right shoulder. The procedure, performed by Drs. Neal ElAttrache and Steve Lombardo on Wednesday morning, lasted two hours. &#8220;I expect Kobe to make a full recovery and if all goes as expected, he [&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-29039","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\/29039","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=29039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29039\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}