{"id":429,"date":"2013-03-27T16:21:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-27T16:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.stub.com\/hq\/news\/lakers-world-peace-out-at-least-six-weeks\/"},"modified":"2013-03-27T16:21:00","modified_gmt":"2013-03-27T16:21:00","slug":"lakers-world-peace-out-at-least-six-weeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/lakers-world-peace-out-at-least-six-weeks\/","title":{"rendered":"Lakers&#8217; World Peace out at least six weeks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>El Segundo, CA (Sports Network) &#8211; The stumbling Los Angeles Lakers will have to continue their playoff push without Metta World Peace.<\/p>\n<p>The 33-year-old forward is scheduled for left knee surgery on Thursday and will be sidelined for at least the rest of the regular season.<\/p>\n<p>Diagnosed with a torn lateral meniscus, World Peace suffered the injury in Monday&#8217;s loss to the Golden State Warriors and is expected to miss at least six weeks, meaning there&#8217;s a good chance he won&#8217;t play again this season.<\/p>\n<p>The Lakers are losers of three in a row and currently hold just a one game lead over the Utah Jazz and Dallas Mavericks for the eighth and final playoff spot in the Western Conference.<\/p>\n<p>The 14-year-veteran, a member of the Lakers since the 2009-10 campaign, was having his most productive season in Los Angeles, posting averages of 12.8 points, 5.1 rebounds and 1.7 steals per game over 70 contests.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>El Segundo, CA (Sports Network) &#8211; The stumbling Los Angeles Lakers will have to continue their playoff push without Metta World Peace. The 33-year-old forward is scheduled for left knee surgery on Thursday and will be sidelined for at least the rest of the regular season. Diagnosed with a torn lateral meniscus, World Peace suffered [&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-429","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\/429","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=429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}