{"id":241711,"date":"2021-10-14T21:58:36","date_gmt":"2021-10-14T19:58:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=241711"},"modified":"2021-10-14T21:58:36","modified_gmt":"2021-10-14T19:58:36","slug":"pelicans-zion-williamson-to-be-re-evaluated-in-2-to-2-1-2-weeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/pelicans-zion-williamson-to-be-re-evaluated-in-2-to-2-1-2-weeks\/","title":{"rendered":"Pelicans: Zion Williamson to be re-evaluated in &#8216;2 to 2 1\/2 weeks&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Orleans Pelicans executive vice president of basketball operations David Griffin said that Zion Williamson will be re-evaluated in &#8216;2 to 2 1\/2 weeks&#8217; and that there&#8217;s no return timetable for now.<\/p>\n<p>The former Duke forward is recovering from surgery on the fifth metatarsal of his right foot.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s everyone&#8217;s goal that Zion return to play as soon as is safely possible. Obviously 2 to 2 1\/2 weeks from now means he won&#8217;t be on the floor for the first week of (regular season) games. When he&#8217;s able to return safely, he will do that&#8221;.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">David Griffin on Zion: &quot;There is no fixed timeline for his return to game action, but the doctors are encouraged by this last batch of images (taken Wednesday)&#8230; doctors will take additional imaging 2 to 2 1\/2 weeks from now as guides and landmarks for taking the next steps.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Jim Eichenhofer (@Jim_Eichenhofer) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Jim_Eichenhofer\/status\/1448729055994564620?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 14, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Griffin: &quot;It&#39;s everyone&#39;s goal that Zion return to play as soon as is safely possible. Obviously 2 to 2 1\/2 weeks from now means he won&#39;t be on the floor for the first week of (regular season) games. When he&#39;s able to return safely, he will do that.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Jim Eichenhofer (@Jim_Eichenhofer) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Jim_Eichenhofer\/status\/1448729524041129986?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 14, 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>Last year Williamson became the first player in NBA history to average at least 27 points on .600 shooting for an entire season.<\/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":[92],"tags":[1121,1846],"rumors":[],"typology":[22],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-241711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nba","tag-new-orleans-pelicans","tag-zion-williamson","typology-infortunio"],"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\/241711","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=241711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241711\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241711"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=241711"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=241711"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=241711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}