{"id":203613,"date":"2021-03-05T08:14:33","date_gmt":"2021-03-05T07:14:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=203613"},"modified":"2021-03-05T08:14:55","modified_gmt":"2021-03-05T07:14:55","slug":"blazers-mccollum-cleared-for-contact-practice-nurkic-makes-strides-in-recovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/blazers-mccollum-cleared-for-contact-practice-nurkic-makes-strides-in-recovery\/","title":{"rendered":"Blazers&#8217; McCollum cleared for contact practice, Nurkic makes strides in recovery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Portland guard\u00a0<strong>CJ McCollum<\/strong>\u00a0continues to recover from a left mid-foot fracture and has been cleared for contact practice, it was announced today by\u00a0<strong>Neil Olshey<\/strong>, Trail Blazers president of basketball operations.<\/p>\n<p>McCollum will be reevaluated later next week. Further updates will be provided as appropriate.<\/p>\n<p>Through 13 games, McCollum averaged 26.7 points (47.3% FG, 44.1% 3-PT, 84.4% FT), 3.9 rebounds and 5.0 assists with Portland prior to sustaining the injury on January 16 vs. Atlanta.<\/p>\n<p>Portland center\u00a0<strong>Jusuf Nurkic<\/strong>\u00a0continues to progress in his recovery from a right wrist fracture, it was announced today by Trail Blazers president of basketball operations,\u00a0<strong>Neil Olshey<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Nurkic, who suffered the injury on January 14 versus Indiana, continues to increase his on-court activity and will be reevaluated later next week. Further updates will be provided accordingly.<\/p>\n<p>In 12 games this season, Nurkic is averaging 9.8 points (48.5% FG, 25.0% 3-PT, 55.6% FT), 7.7 rebounds, 2.8 assists and 23.3 minutes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Both players will be re-evaluated next week<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":145,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[92],"tags":[],"rumors":[135],"typology":[179],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-203613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nba","rumors-rumors-nba","typology-injury"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/145"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203613\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203613"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=203613"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=203613"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=203613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}