{"id":240474,"date":"2021-10-06T22:04:34","date_gmt":"2021-10-06T20:04:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=240474"},"modified":"2021-10-06T22:04:34","modified_gmt":"2021-10-06T20:04:34","slug":"wizards-deni-avdija-could-return-in-saturdays-preseason-game-against-the-knicks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wizards-deni-avdija-could-return-in-saturdays-preseason-game-against-the-knicks\/","title":{"rendered":"Wizards: Deni Avdija could return in Saturday&#8217;s preseason game against the Knicks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Washington Wizards forward Deni Avdija recently returned to play in 5-on-5 scrimmages.<br \/>\nThe player ended his rookie season early last April due to a severe right ankle injury.<br \/>\nWizards coach Wes Unseld Jr would like him to play as early as next Saturday&#8217;s preseason game against the New York Knicks.<\/p>\n<p>Avdija averaged 6.3 points, 4.9 rebounds and 1.2 assists per game during his rookie year.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Coach Wes Unseld Jr. says Deni Avdija played in 5-on-5 scrimmages today for the first time. He is not going to play in tomorrow&#39;s preseason opener, but they are looking at Saturday for his debut.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Chase Hughes (@chasedcsports) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/chasedcsports\/status\/1445070337738162197?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 4, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Avdija was the No.9 pick of the 2020 NBA Draft<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"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":[399],"tags":[9951,1107],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-240474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nba","tag-deni-avdija-en","tag-washington-wizards-en"],"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\/240474","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\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240474\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240474"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=240474"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=240474"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=240474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}