{"id":5892,"date":"2013-10-03T21:01:00","date_gmt":"2013-10-03T21:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.stub.com\/hq\/news\/kobe-goes-overseas-for-medical-procedure\/"},"modified":"2013-10-03T21:01:00","modified_gmt":"2013-10-03T21:01:00","slug":"kobe-goes-overseas-for-medical-procedure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/kobe-goes-overseas-for-medical-procedure\/","title":{"rendered":"Kobe goes overseas for medical procedure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>El Segundo, CA (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Los Angeles Lakers confirmed Thursday that Kobe Bryant has left the country to undergo a medical procedure, though the team said it is unrelated to his ongoing rehab from a torn Achilles tendon.<\/p>\n<p>Multiple reports have stated that Bryant is en route to Germany to receive platelet-rich plasma therapy on his right knee. The 15-time All-Star had the treatment performed on the same knee prior to the 2011-12 season, then averaged 27.9 points while playing in all but eight of the Lakers&#8217; games during that lockout-shortened campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Bryant ruptured his Achilles in his left leg in April and was given a 6-to-9 month timetable for recovery. The 35-year-old had been participating in some light workouts during the Lakers&#8217; ongoing training camp.<\/p>\n<p>Bryant is expected to return to the team early next week, according to the Lakers&#8217; official site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>El Segundo, CA (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Los Angeles Lakers confirmed Thursday that Kobe Bryant has left the country to undergo a medical procedure, though the team said it is unrelated to his ongoing rehab from a torn Achilles tendon. Multiple reports have stated that Bryant is en route to Germany to receive platelet-rich plasma therapy [&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-5892","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\/5892","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=5892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5892\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}