{"id":251577,"date":"2021-12-11T22:41:57","date_gmt":"2021-12-11T21:41:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=251577"},"modified":"2021-12-11T22:41:57","modified_gmt":"2021-12-11T21:41:57","slug":"pelicans-zion-williamson-suffers-setback-in-rehab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/pelicans-zion-williamson-suffers-setback-in-rehab\/","title":{"rendered":"Pelicans&#8217; Zion Williamson suffers setback in rehab"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/pelicans\/news\/zion-williamson-medical-update-12-11-21\">New Orleans Pelicans released the following medical update<\/a> on Zion Williamson:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter experiencing persistent soreness in his right foot, Zion Williamson underwent medical imaging which showed a regression in the bone healing of his fifth metatarsal. As a result, the volume and intensity of his training will be reduced for an extended period to help allow for further bone healing. Additional updates will be provided as warranted.\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The Duke product averaged 25.7 points, 7 rebounds and 3.2 assists in 85 games played in his first two seasons with the Pelicans.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the team is struggling in the Western Conference, with just 8 wins in 28 games.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Zion Williamson Medical Update:<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/b7NDETbzAB\">https:\/\/t.co\/b7NDETbzAB<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; New Orleans Pelicans (@PelicansNBA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PelicansNBA\/status\/1469772713623490561?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 11, 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>The Duke product averaged 25.7 points, 7 rebounds and 3.2 assists in 85 games played in his first two seasons with the Pelicans.<\/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":[1444,3685],"rumors":[],"typology":[22,15725],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-251577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nba","tag-new-orleans-pelicans-3","tag-zion-williamson-2","typology-infortunio","typology-comunicato"],"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\/251577","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=251577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251577\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251577"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=251577"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=251577"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=251577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}