{"id":428989,"date":"2025-02-17T08:40:07","date_gmt":"2025-02-17T07:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=428989"},"modified":"2025-02-17T08:40:07","modified_gmt":"2025-02-17T07:40:07","slug":"anthony-edwards-misses-all-star-game-due-to-groin-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/anthony-edwards-misses-all-star-game-due-to-groin-injury\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthony Edwards misses All-Star Game due to groin injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1239\" data-end=\"1424\"><strong data-start=\"1239\" data-end=\"1258\">Anthony Edwards<\/strong> was ruled out of <strong data-start=\"1276\" data-end=\"1306\">Sunday\u2019s NBA All-Star Game<\/strong> due to a <strong data-start=\"1316\" data-end=\"1332\">groin injury<\/strong>, with the announcement coming only after he missed <strong data-start=\"1384\" data-end=\"1421\">Team Kenny\u2019s opening loss (41-32)<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1426\" data-end=\"1640\">The <strong data-start=\"1430\" data-end=\"1456\">Minnesota Timberwolves<\/strong> guard, named an <strong data-start=\"1473\" data-end=\"1513\">All-Star for the third straight year<\/strong>, had hoped to participate but decided to <strong data-start=\"1555\" data-end=\"1582\">prioritize his recovery<\/strong> for the team\u2019s return to action <strong data-start=\"1615\" data-end=\"1637\">Friday vs. Houston<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1642\" data-end=\"1812\">Edwards is having a <strong data-start=\"1662\" data-end=\"1684\">career-best season<\/strong>, averaging <strong data-start=\"1696\" data-end=\"1720\">27.5 points per game<\/strong>. His absence followed that of <strong data-start=\"1751\" data-end=\"1767\">LeBron James<\/strong>, who also sat out the event due to injury.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1814\" data-end=\"1830\"><em data-start=\"1814\" data-end=\"1828\">Source: ESPN<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Timberwolves star Anthony Edwards sat out the All-Star tournament due to a groin injury, with his return expected against Houston<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":371773,"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-428989","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\/Minnesota-Timberwolves.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428989","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=428989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428989\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/371773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428989"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=428989"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=428989"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=428989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}