{"id":481440,"date":"2026-01-30T08:59:32","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T07:59:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=481440"},"modified":"2026-01-30T08:59:32","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T07:59:32","slug":"atlanta-hawks-onyeka-okongwu-suffers-dental-fracture-after-elbow-to-the-face","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/atlanta-hawks-onyeka-okongwu-suffers-dental-fracture-after-elbow-to-the-face\/","title":{"rendered":"Atlanta Hawks\u2019 Onyeka Okongwu suffers dental fracture after elbow to the face"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1506\" data-end=\"1700\">The <strong data-start=\"1510\" data-end=\"1527\">Atlanta Hawks<\/strong> will be without <strong data-start=\"1544\" data-end=\"1562\">Onyeka Okongwu<\/strong> for at least Thursday night\u2019s game against the <strong data-start=\"1610\" data-end=\"1629\">Houston Rockets<\/strong> after he suffered a <strong data-start=\"1650\" data-end=\"1669\">dental fracture<\/strong> in Atlanta\u2019s previous contest.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1702\" data-end=\"1973\">Okongwu was elbowed in the mouth by <strong data-start=\"1738\" data-end=\"1754\">Jaylen Brown<\/strong> in the fourth quarter of the Hawks\u2019 win over Boston, with Brown assessed a <strong data-start=\"1830\" data-end=\"1847\">flagrant foul<\/strong>. Bloodied, Okongwu briefly returned to take a free throw before exiting, and he was missing <strong data-start=\"1940\" data-end=\"1962\">at least one tooth<\/strong> afterward.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1975\" data-end=\"2237\">Brown said postgame the contact was <strong data-start=\"2011\" data-end=\"2028\">unintentional<\/strong>, referencing his own past facial fracture that required him to wear a protective mask. Hawks coach <strong data-start=\"2128\" data-end=\"2143\">Quin Snyder<\/strong> praised Okongwu\u2019s toughness, noting he \u201ctook quite a shot\u201d and would likely need dental work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The big man will miss at least Thursday\u2019s matchup vs the Houston Rockets after contact from Jaylen Brown vs Boston<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":372098,"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-481440","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\/Atlanta-Hawks.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481440","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=481440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481440\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/372098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481440"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=481440"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=481440"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=481440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}