{"id":439751,"date":"2025-04-28T08:12:45","date_gmt":"2025-04-28T06:12:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=439751"},"modified":"2025-04-28T08:12:45","modified_gmt":"2025-04-28T06:12:45","slug":"milwaukee-bucks-damian-lillard-leaves-game-4-with-suspected-achilles-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/milwaukee-bucks-damian-lillard-leaves-game-4-with-suspected-achilles-injury\/","title":{"rendered":"Milwaukee Bucks&#8217; Damian Lillard leaves Game 4 with suspected Achilles injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\" data-start=\"1104\" data-end=\"1287\"><strong data-start=\"1119\" data-end=\"1137\">Damian Lillard<\/strong> suffered a <strong data-start=\"1149\" data-end=\"1174\">left lower leg injury<\/strong> during <strong data-start=\"1182\" data-end=\"1192\">Game 4<\/strong> against the <strong data-start=\"1205\" data-end=\"1215\">Pacers<\/strong>, with initial fears pointing to a <strong data-start=\"1250\" data-end=\"1278\">possible Achilles tendon<\/strong> issue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"1289\" data-end=\"1418\"><strong data-start=\"1289\" data-end=\"1303\">Doc Rivers<\/strong> admitted postgame, \u201cIt\u2019s not very promising.\u201d An <strong data-start=\"1353\" data-end=\"1370\">MRI on Monday<\/strong> will determine the full extent of the injury.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"1420\" data-end=\"1571\">After returning from deep vein thrombosis, Lillard had struggled in the series, and now <strong data-start=\"1508\" data-end=\"1521\">Milwaukee<\/strong>, down 3-1, faces a tough situation without him.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">&#8220;This is a tough one, honestly. Blood clot, followed by [Achilles]. &#8230; He&#8217;s just a great freakin&#8217; dude, as a teammate and a father. No one deserves it.&#8221; \u2764\ufe0f<\/p>\n<p>Doc Rivers speaks on Damian Lillard <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zt1XKVcmTv\">pic.twitter.com\/zt1XKVcmTv<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Bleacher Report (@BleacherReport) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BleacherReport\/status\/1916717508612018584?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 28, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Damian Lillard goes down with a non-contact injury.<\/p>\n<p>Prayers. \ud83d\ude4f<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/5tcfsPSOCb\">pic.twitter.com\/5tcfsPSOCb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Hoop Central (@TheHoopCentral) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheHoopCentral\/status\/1916673991093481799?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 28, 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 Bucks star exited early against Indiana and will undergo an MRI on Monday to assess the damage<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":371677,"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":[22,19],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-439751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","typology-infortunio","typology-video"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/02\/Milwaukee-Bucks.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439751","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=439751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439751\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/371677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439751"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=439751"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=439751"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=439751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}