{"id":709227,"date":"2010-04-05T14:25:15","date_gmt":"2010-04-05T18:25:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/my.lakers.com\/blogs\/?p=16498"},"modified":"2010-04-05T14:25:15","modified_gmt":"2010-04-05T18:25:15","slug":"walton-plays-8-minutes-feels-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/709227","title":{"rendered":"Walton Plays 8 Minutes, Feels Good"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/my.lakers.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/lukewalton.jpg?resize=250%2C376\" alt=\"60080903\" title=\"60080903\" width=\"250\" height=\"376\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-16502\" \/><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>Lakers forward Luke Walton played in a game for the first time since Feb. 10, earning eight minutes to produce two assists and provide some defensive energy without attempting a shot.<\/p>\n<p>Walton was on the floor to start the fourth quarter, helping the Lakers trim an 8-point Spurs lead down to three before checking out moments later.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a bench player you have to find a way to get active in the game besides that but it can be difficult and tough a lot of times just throw the ball down to Kobe (Bryant) and the ball down to Pau (Gasol) and they make plays,&#8221; he said. &#8220;You\u2019ve still have to somehow to get in there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As for his back, which has limited him to just 25 of 77 games this season?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt felt good,&#8221; he said. &#8220;The back felt good out there. My timing was a little off but that will come, that\u2019s nothing. But it was fun to be back out there.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lakers forward Luke Walton played in a game for the first time since Feb. 10, earning eight minutes to produce two assists and provide some defensive energy without attempting a shot. Walton was on the floor to start the fourth quarter, helping the Lakers trim an 8-point Spurs lead down to three before checking out [&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-709227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2Yv9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709227","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=709227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709227\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=709227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=709227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=709227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}