{"id":440374,"date":"2025-05-02T19:57:14","date_gmt":"2025-05-02T17:57:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=440374"},"modified":"2025-05-02T19:57:14","modified_gmt":"2025-05-02T17:57:14","slug":"lebron-james-suffers-mcl-sprain-in-left-knee-out-3-5-weeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/lebron-james-suffers-mcl-sprain-in-left-knee-out-3-5-weeks\/","title":{"rendered":"LeBron James suffers MCL sprain in left knee, out 3-5 weeks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\" data-start=\"1176\" data-end=\"1431\"><strong data-start=\"1191\" data-end=\"1258\">LeBron James has suffered a Grade 2 MCL sprain in his left knee<\/strong> following a collision with Donte DiVincenzo in Game 5, <em data-start=\"1314\" data-end=\"1337\">ESPN\u2019s Dave McMenamin<\/em> reported Thursday. <strong data-start=\"1357\" data-end=\"1428\">The injury comes with a projected recovery timeline of 3 to 5 weeks<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"1433\" data-end=\"1595\">Had the Lakers extended the series to a Game 6 in Minnesota, James would not have played \u2014 ending his <strong data-start=\"1535\" data-end=\"1592\">record streak of 292 consecutive playoff games played<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"1597\" data-end=\"1762\">The injury casts further uncertainty over James\u2019 immediate future, as the 40-year-old had already postponed a decision on whether he\u2019ll return for a 23rd NBA season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LeBron James sustained a Grade 2 MCL sprain in his left knee during Game 5 and is expected to miss 3-5 weeks, per ESPN<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":372083,"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-440374","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\/Los-Angeles-Lakers.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440374","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=440374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440374\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/372083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440374"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=440374"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=440374"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=440374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}