{"id":383757,"date":"2024-04-18T08:17:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-18T06:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=383757"},"modified":"2024-04-18T08:17:00","modified_gmt":"2024-04-18T06:17:00","slug":"miami-heats-jimmy-butler-suffered-a-right-knee-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/miami-heats-jimmy-butler-suffered-a-right-knee-injury\/","title":{"rendered":"Miami Heat&#8217;s Jimmy Butler suffered a right knee injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Miami Heat guard Jimmy Butler suffered a right knee injury during the 105-104 play-in loss to the 76ers in Philadelphia.<\/p>\n<p>The injury occurred on the last play of the first quarter when, attempting a layup on the counter-break, he fell down in pain after contact with Kelly Oubre Jr.<\/p>\n<p>Butler, visibly in pain, said he would have to undergo an MRI on Thursday to assess the extent of the injury, fearing it might be a medial cruciate ligament (MCL) problem.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the injury, Butler remained on the court, but ended the game with only 12 points in the remainder of the match, scoring 3 of 14 on the shot.<\/p>\n<p>There is now doubt about his availability for Friday&#8217;s decisive game against the Chicago Bulls, which will determine who gets the eighth seed. &#8220;I hope I&#8217;m OK,&#8221; Butler commented, &#8220;but right now I can&#8217;t say that I am.&#8221; The Heat face the same situation as last year, playing at home for playoff access as the eighth seed.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Jimmy Butler injured his right knee on this play right here<\/p>\n<p>Concern would be from the weight of Oubre when he fell on Butler causing possible<\/p>\n<p>-MCL sprain<br \/>\n-Meniscus injury <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/NnGabXb5pa\">pic.twitter.com\/NnGabXb5pa<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Dr. Evan Jeffries, DPT (@GameInjuryDoc) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GameInjuryDoc\/status\/1780745953525510527?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 17, 2024<\/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>Miami Heat guard Jimmy Butler suffered a right knee injury during the 105-104 play-in loss to the 76ers in Philadelphia<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":372525,"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":[399],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[179],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-383757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","typology-injury"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/02\/Miami-Heay.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383757","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\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=383757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383757\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/372525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383757"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=383757"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=383757"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=383757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}