{"id":437342,"date":"2025-04-10T08:03:40","date_gmt":"2025-04-10T06:03:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=437342"},"modified":"2025-04-10T08:03:40","modified_gmt":"2025-04-10T06:03:40","slug":"lonzo-ball-meets-family-of-knee-cartilage-donor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/lonzo-ball-meets-family-of-knee-cartilage-donor\/","title":{"rendered":"Lonzo Ball meets family of knee cartilage donor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\" data-start=\"1049\" data-end=\"1507\"><strong data-start=\"1062\" data-end=\"1079\">Chicago Bulls<\/strong> guard <strong data-start=\"1086\" data-end=\"1100\">Lonzo Ball<\/strong> met the family of <strong data-start=\"1119\" data-end=\"1137\">Alex Reinhardt<\/strong>, the 20-year-old whose <strong data-start=\"1161\" data-end=\"1188\">knee cartilage donation<\/strong> helped Ball return to basketball. The pregame moment included photos and signed jerseys, moving Alex\u2019s mother to tears.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"1049\" data-end=\"1507\">\u201cIt\u2019s a blessing to see Lonzo doing well because of Alex,\u201d she said. Ball underwent the transplant in 2023 after multiple failed surgeries and has played 35 games this season after two years away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An emotional moment as Lonzo Ball connected with the family of the man whose tissue saved his NBA career<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":372103,"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":[92],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-437342","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\/02\/Chicago-Bulls.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437342","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=437342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437342\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/372103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=437342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437342"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=437342"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=437342"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=437342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}