{"id":428988,"date":"2025-02-17T08:37:23","date_gmt":"2025-02-17T07:37:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=428988"},"modified":"2025-02-17T08:37:23","modified_gmt":"2025-02-17T07:37:23","slug":"lebron-sits-out-all-star-game-with-foot-ankle-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/lebron-sits-out-all-star-game-with-foot-ankle-issue\/","title":{"rendered":"LeBron sits out All-Star Game with foot\/ankle issue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1398\" data-end=\"1554\">For the first time in his <strong data-start=\"1424\" data-end=\"1450\">21 All-Star selections<\/strong>, <strong data-start=\"1452\" data-end=\"1468\">LeBron James<\/strong> did not play in the <strong data-start=\"1489\" data-end=\"1510\">NBA All-Star Game<\/strong>, citing <strong data-start=\"1519\" data-end=\"1551\">left foot and ankle soreness<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1556\" data-end=\"1696\"><em data-start=\"1556\" data-end=\"1623\">&#8220;I was hoping to feel better, but I wasn\u2019t where I wanted to be,&#8221;<\/em> James said after deciding <strong data-start=\"1650\" data-end=\"1682\">just two hours before tipoff<\/strong> to sit out.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1698\" data-end=\"1845\">James, who has played <strong data-start=\"1720\" data-end=\"1750\">48 of 52 games this season<\/strong>, aims to return <strong data-start=\"1767\" data-end=\"1794\">Wednesday vs. Charlotte<\/strong>, a rescheduled game due to California wildfires.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1847\" data-end=\"2113\">Despite his absence, <strong data-start=\"1868\" data-end=\"1887\">Team Shaq\u2019s OGs<\/strong>, led by <strong data-start=\"1896\" data-end=\"1916\">Curry and Durant<\/strong>, won the tournament-style All-Star event. James also discussed playing alongside <strong data-start=\"1998\" data-end=\"2013\">Luka Doncic<\/strong>, saying the <strong data-start=\"2026\" data-end=\"2081\">addition of a generational talent has energized him<\/strong> for the season\u2019s stretch run.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2115\" data-end=\"2131\"><em data-start=\"2115\" data-end=\"2129\">Source: ESPN<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time in his career, LeBron James missed the NBA All-Star Game due to lingering discomfort in his left foot and ankle<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":400257,"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":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-428988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/08\/LeBron-James-Stati-Uniti-Olimpiadi-Photo-FIBA.webp","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428988","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=428988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428988\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/400257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428988"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=428988"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=428988"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=428988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}