{"id":7810,"date":"2013-11-11T21:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-11-11T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.stub.com\/hq\/news\/lakers-nash-facing-extended-absence\/"},"modified":"2013-11-12T04:55:05","modified_gmt":"2013-11-12T04:55:05","slug":"lakers-nash-facing-extended-absence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/lakers-nash-facing-extended-absence\/","title":{"rendered":"Lakers&#8217; Nash facing extended absence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>El Segundo, CA (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Los Angeles Lakers point guard Steve Nash will undergo an epidural to alleviate pain in his chronically injured back on Tuesday, a procedure that is expected to sideline the two-time league MVP for a minimum of two weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Nash sat out the entire second half of the Lakers&#8217; 113-90 loss to Minnesota on Saturday and spent Monday visiting a back specialist, who diagnosed the 18- year veteran with nerve root irritation. He is slated to be reevaluated in approximately 10 days.<\/p>\n<p>The 39-year-old Nash was limited to just 50 regular-season games during the 2012-13 campaign, his first with the Lakers, due to recurring hamstring problems that were related to the ongoing nerve issues in his back.<\/p>\n<p>Nash has averaged only 6.7 points and 4.8 assists in six games thus far this season, while shooting a career-low 26.1 percent from the field.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>El Segundo, CA (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Los Angeles Lakers point guard Steve Nash will undergo an epidural to alleviate pain in his chronically injured back on Tuesday, a procedure that is expected to sideline the two-time league MVP for a minimum of two weeks. Nash sat out the entire second half of the Lakers&#8217; 113-90 loss [&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-7810","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\/7810","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=7810"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7821,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7810\/revisions\/7821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}