{"id":704730,"date":"2010-03-29T19:28:42","date_gmt":"2010-03-29T23:28:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/my.lakers.com\/blogs\/?p=16308"},"modified":"2010-03-29T19:28:42","modified_gmt":"2010-03-29T23:28:42","slug":"injury-update-luke-walton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/704730","title":{"rendered":"Injury Update: Luke Walton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nba.com\/jm.jsp?ref=lakers_uclahealth&#038;dest=http:\/\/www.uclahealth.org\/\" ><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/my.lakers.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/injuryreport_ucla.jpg?w=780\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a>The Lakers could get a bench boost from within later this week, according to Coach Phil Jackson.<\/p>\n<p>Luke Walton, who has played in only 24 of L.A.&#8217;s 72 games due to a pinched nerve in his lower back, may be ready to go sooner than later.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Walton I think will start practicing next week,&#8221; said Phil Jackson. &#8220;(He) may even get on the court Thursday when we get back, get in a practice before the Utah game (Friday).&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The excellent-passing forward&#8217;s target return date has long been early April, so that he can get some game action in before L.A. begins its title defense in the playoffs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Lakers could get a bench boost from within later this week, according to Coach Phil Jackson. Luke Walton, who has played in only 24 of L.A.&#8217;s 72 games due to a pinched nerve in his lower back, may be ready to go sooner than later. &#8220;Walton I think will start practicing next week,&#8221; said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2645,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-704730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2XkC","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2645"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=704730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704730\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=704730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=704730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=704730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}