{"id":485396,"date":"2026-02-25T09:11:35","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T08:11:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=485396"},"modified":"2026-02-25T09:11:35","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T08:11:35","slug":"atlanta-hawks-jalen-johnson-exits-win-with-first-quarter-left-hip-flexor-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/atlanta-hawks-jalen-johnson-exits-win-with-first-quarter-left-hip-flexor-injury\/","title":{"rendered":"Atlanta Hawks\u2019 Jalen Johnson exits win with first-quarter left hip flexor injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1547\" data-end=\"1814\">The <strong data-start=\"1551\" data-end=\"1568\">Atlanta Hawks<\/strong> cruised past the <strong data-start=\"1586\" data-end=\"1608\">Washington Wizards<\/strong> 119-98 on Tuesday night, but lost forward <strong data-start=\"1651\" data-end=\"1668\">Jalen Johnson<\/strong> in the first quarter with a left hip flexor injury. Johnson was evaluated by the training staff and then ruled out for the remainder of the game.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1816\" data-end=\"2046\">\u201cThere was enough there not to send him back in the game,\u201d coach Quin Snyder said. Johnson, a first-time All-Star this season, will be re-evaluated before Atlanta faces Washington again Thursday to complete a back-to-back at home.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2048\" data-end=\"2208\">Johnson finished with five points, three rebounds and two steals in about 5\u00bd minutes. He entered the night averaging 23.4 points, 10.8 rebounds and 8.1 assists.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2210\" data-end=\"2362\">His early exit helped create a larger role for <strong data-start=\"2257\" data-end=\"2277\">Jonathan Kuminga<\/strong>, who scored a season-high 27 points in his Hawks debut following the trade deadline.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Atlanta beats the Wizards 119-98, but its first-time All-Star plays only 5:30<\/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-485396","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\/485396","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=485396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485396\/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=485396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=485396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485396"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=485396"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=485396"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=485396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}