{"id":429852,"date":"2025-02-24T08:36:16","date_gmt":"2025-02-24T07:36:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=429852"},"modified":"2025-02-24T08:36:16","modified_gmt":"2025-02-24T07:36:16","slug":"timberwolves-jaylen-clark-exits-with-neck-pain-after-hard-fall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/timberwolves-jaylen-clark-exits-with-neck-pain-after-hard-fall\/","title":{"rendered":"Timberwolves\u2019 Jaylen Clark exits with neck pain after hard fall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1052\" data-end=\"1691\">The <strong data-start=\"1056\" data-end=\"1082\">Minnesota Timberwolves<\/strong> suffered a <strong data-start=\"1094\" data-end=\"1110\">130-123 loss<\/strong> to the <strong data-start=\"1118\" data-end=\"1143\">Oklahoma City Thunder<\/strong>, but the bigger concern was <strong data-start=\"1172\" data-end=\"1190\">Jaylen Clark\u2019s<\/strong> injury.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1052\" data-end=\"1691\">The <strong data-start=\"1203\" data-end=\"1217\">6\u20194\u201d guard<\/strong> took a hard fall in the <strong data-start=\"1242\" data-end=\"1259\">third quarter<\/strong> after attacking the rim against <strong data-start=\"1292\" data-end=\"1314\">Isaiah Hartenstein<\/strong>, landing on his <strong data-start=\"1331\" data-end=\"1348\">back and head<\/strong> while his <strong data-start=\"1359\" data-end=\"1384\">neck snapped backward<\/strong>. Clark stayed down for a while before being helped off and later ruled out.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1052\" data-end=\"1691\">Starting for just the <strong data-start=\"1483\" data-end=\"1512\">second time in his career<\/strong>, he had <strong data-start=\"1521\" data-end=\"1548\">14 points in 18 minutes<\/strong>. Coach <strong data-start=\"1556\" data-end=\"1571\">Chris Finch<\/strong> had no update postgame. With <strong data-start=\"1601\" data-end=\"1635\">Gobert, Randle, and DiVincenzo<\/strong> already out, Minnesota faces <strong data-start=\"1665\" data-end=\"1688\">OKC again on Monday<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\u26a0\ufe0f Head Injury Warning:<\/p>\n<p>Jaylen Clark\u2019s head hit the floor very hard and neck snaps back. Praying it\u2019s nothing serious. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xbV6RyquFA\">pic.twitter.com\/xbV6RyquFA<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/VUfmQtK1VO\">https:\/\/t.co\/VUfmQtK1VO<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 MNMuse (@statmusewolves) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/statmusewolves\/status\/1893880370682024255?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 24, 2025<\/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 rookie guard left the game against the Thunder after an awkward landing<\/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":[179,187],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-429852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","typology-injury","typology-video"],"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\/429852","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=429852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429852\/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=429852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429852"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=429852"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=429852"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=429852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}