{"id":7986,"date":"2013-11-15T12:07:00","date_gmt":"2013-11-15T12:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.stub.com\/hq\/news\/hawks-williams-cleared-to-play\/"},"modified":"2013-11-15T12:07:00","modified_gmt":"2013-11-15T12:07:00","slug":"hawks-williams-cleared-to-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/hawks-williams-cleared-to-play\/","title":{"rendered":"Hawks&#8217; Williams cleared to play"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Atlanta, GA (SportsNetwork.com)- Atlanta Hawks guard Lou Williams, sidelined since January with a knee injury that required surgery, has been cleared to play and is listed as day-to-day.<\/p>\n<p>Williams suffered a torn ACL in his right knee on Jan. 18 in a game against Brooklyn. He had surgery to repair the injury on Feb. 7 and had been sidelined ever since.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s been a long, long journey,&#8221; said Williams. &#8220;I&#8217;ve learned a lot about myself. I&#8217;m really excited to get back out there and play a game.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Hawks host the Philadelphia 76ers on Friday night. The team hasn&#8217;t announced if Williams will be playing.<\/p>\n<p>In 39 games last season, Williams averaged 14.1 points and 3.6 assists per game. For his career, the 2011-12 Sixth Man Award winner when with the Sixers has averaged 11.6 points per game over eight seasons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Atlanta, GA (SportsNetwork.com)- Atlanta Hawks guard Lou Williams, sidelined since January with a knee injury that required surgery, has been cleared to play and is listed as day-to-day. Williams suffered a torn ACL in his right knee on Jan. 18 in a game against Brooklyn. He had surgery to repair the injury on Feb. 7 [&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":[18,89,90],"class_list":["post-7986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nba","tag-atlanta","tag-atlanta-hawks","tag-hawks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7986","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=7986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7986\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}