{"id":343937,"date":"2023-08-15T22:12:46","date_gmt":"2023-08-15T20:12:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=343937"},"modified":"2023-08-15T22:04:14","modified_gmt":"2023-08-15T20:04:14","slug":"kristaps-porzingis-to-miss-fiba-world-cup-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/kristaps-porzingis-to-miss-fiba-world-cup-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Kristaps Porzingis to miss FIBA World Cup 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After <a href=\"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/latvia-star-kristaps-porzingis-may-miss-fiba-basketball-world-cup\/\">the news<\/a> and subsequent<a href=\"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/latvian-federation-denies-porzingis-injury-rumors\/\"> denial<\/a> over the past few days, Kristaps Porzingis announced that he will not compete in the 2023 FIBA World Cup with Latvia due to plantar fasciitis.<\/p>\n<p>Porzingis explained that the choice was made by mutual agreement with the national team&#8217;s medical staff and the Boston Celtics.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was not an easy decision, but I promise I will be there and support the team as much as I can.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Obviously this is an important loss for the team led by Luca Banchi, who will face Finland tomorrow in Riga in the last friendly game before the FIBA World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>Latvia is in Group H with Canada, Lebanon and France.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"lv\" dir=\"ltr\">Ir gr\u016bti, es j\u016btos \u013coti atbild\u012bgs savu un Latvijas valstsvien\u012bbas atbalst\u012bt\u0101ju priek\u0161\u0101, ta\u010du ir pie\u0146emts l\u0113mums, ka es nesp\u0113l\u0113\u0161u Pasaules kaus\u0101. <\/p>\n<p>P\u0113c vair\u0101ku ned\u0113\u013cu atlab\u0161anas procesa un atk\u0101rtota MRI izmekl\u0113juma, v\u0113l joproj\u0101m p\u0113das plant\u0101rais fasc\u012bts man ne\u013cauj atrasties uz\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/mvyk4Dj8lU\">pic.twitter.com\/mvyk4Dj8lU<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Kristaps Porzingis (@kporzee) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kporzee\/status\/1691527368244953089?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 15, 2023<\/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>Porzingis out of the World Cup<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":343936,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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":[383],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[22],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-343937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-cup","typology-infortunio"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2023\/08\/kristaps-porzingis-lettonia-photo-fiba.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343937","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=343937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343937\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/343936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343937"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=343937"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=343937"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=343937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}