{"id":486501,"date":"2026-03-04T15:03:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T14:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=486501"},"modified":"2026-03-04T15:03:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T14:03:08","slug":"panathinaikos-lessort-close-to-return-after-italy-check-all-ok-from-surgeon-van-dijk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/panathinaikos-lessort-close-to-return-after-italy-check-all-ok-from-surgeon-van-dijk\/","title":{"rendered":"Panathinaikos: Lessort close to return after Italy check, \u201call ok\u201d from surgeon van Dijk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1528\" data-end=\"1779\">According to <em data-start=\"1541\" data-end=\"1552\">TheShot71<\/em>, <strong data-start=\"1554\" data-end=\"1573\">Mathias Lessort<\/strong> traveled to <strong data-start=\"1586\" data-end=\"1595\">Italy<\/strong> for a final check and clearance from Dutch surgeon <strong data-start=\"1647\" data-end=\"1664\">Niek van Dijk<\/strong> (who also operates in <strong data-start=\"1687\" data-end=\"1695\">Pisa<\/strong>). The assessment reportedly came back \u201call ok\u201d for the <strong data-start=\"1751\" data-end=\"1768\">Panathinaikos<\/strong> big man.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1781\" data-end=\"2021\">Lessort could now return to <strong data-start=\"1809\" data-end=\"1826\">team practice<\/strong> soon, possibly \u201cas early as tonight,\u201d aligning with van Dijk\u2019s initial post-arthroscopy timeline. The original window was <strong data-start=\"1949\" data-end=\"1970\">14 weeks (Feb 28)<\/strong> to <strong data-start=\"1974\" data-end=\"1995\">16 weeks (Mar 14)<\/strong> to start full training.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2023\" data-end=\"2235\">The same report says Panathinaikos have <strong data-start=\"2063\" data-end=\"2075\">March 15<\/strong> and <strong data-start=\"2080\" data-end=\"2104\">Panathinaikos vs AEK<\/strong> marked as a reference point, with the exact timing depending on how Lessort responds to group sessions and his physical condition.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2237\" data-end=\"2332\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\"><em data-start=\"2237\" data-end=\"2276\">Source: <strong data-start=\"2246\" data-end=\"2275\">TheShot71 (Strong Side)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The French center reportedly used the day off to get a final clearance from Dutch surgeon Niek van Dijk<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":363493,"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":[199,249],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[179],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-486501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-euroleague","category-greece","typology-injury"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2023\/12\/IMG_5750.jpeg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486501","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=486501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486501\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/363493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486501"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=486501"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=486501"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=486501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}