{"id":6974,"date":"2013-10-28T10:55:00","date_gmt":"2013-10-28T10:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.stub.com\/hq\/news\/pacers-granger-to-miss-first-three-weeks\/"},"modified":"2013-10-31T05:25:09","modified_gmt":"2013-10-31T05:25:09","slug":"pacers-granger-to-miss-first-three-weeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/pacers-granger-to-miss-first-three-weeks\/","title":{"rendered":"Pacers&#8217; Granger to miss first three weeks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Indianapolis, IN (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Indiana Pacers forward Danny Granger is expected to miss the first three weeks of the season as he continues to recover from a calf injury.<\/p>\n<p>Granger suffered a left calf strain in a preseason game against Dallas on Oct. 16.<\/p>\n<p>The Pacers said the decision to keep Granger sidelined is a &#8220;precautionary measure&#8221; to ensure that he will be physically ready to play.<\/p>\n<p>Last season, Granger missed all but five games because of patellar tendinosis in his left knee. He averaged just 5.4 points and 1.8 rebounds in his abbreviated action in 2012-13.<\/p>\n<p>The Pacers said the rehab process Granger will undergo during his inactivity is strictly related to the calf and not last year&#8217;s knee issue.<\/p>\n<p>Granger averaged 21.6 points and 5.4 rebounds for Indiana over a five-year span from 2007-12, including a career-best 25.8 points over 67 games during his lone All-Star season in 2008-09, when he was also named the NBA&#8217;s Most Improved Player.<\/p>\n<p>The reigning Central Division champion Pacers will tip off the upcoming season Tuesday against the Orlando Magic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indianapolis, IN (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Indiana Pacers forward Danny Granger is expected to miss the first three weeks of the season as he continues to recover from a calf injury. Granger suffered a left calf strain in a preseason game against Dallas on Oct. 16. The Pacers said the decision to keep Granger sidelined is a [&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":[92,91,93],"class_list":["post-6974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nba","tag-indiana","tag-indiana-pacers","tag-pacers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6974","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=6974"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7008,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6974\/revisions\/7008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}