{"id":495672,"date":"2026-05-06T08:04:30","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T06:04:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=495672"},"modified":"2026-05-06T08:04:30","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T06:04:30","slug":"jarred-vanderbilt-dislocates-right-pinkie-during-lakers-thunder-game-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/jarred-vanderbilt-dislocates-right-pinkie-during-lakers-thunder-game-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Jarred Vanderbilt dislocates right pinkie during Lakers-Thunder Game 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1529\" data-end=\"1735\"><strong data-start=\"1529\" data-end=\"1550\">Jarred Vanderbilt<\/strong> suffered a full dislocation of his right pinkie during the <strong data-start=\"1610\" data-end=\"1633\">Los Angeles Lakers\u2019<\/strong> 108-90 loss to the <strong data-start=\"1653\" data-end=\"1678\">Oklahoma City Thunder<\/strong> in Game 1 of their Western Conference semifinals series.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1737\" data-end=\"2010\">The injury happened in the second quarter, when Vanderbilt tried to contest a dunk by <strong data-start=\"1823\" data-end=\"1840\">Chet Holmgren<\/strong> and hit his finger on the corner of the backboard. According to ESPN, Vanderbilt needed stitches after the game because the bone in the dislocated finger broke the skin.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2012\" data-end=\"2258\"><strong data-start=\"2012\" data-end=\"2025\">JJ Redick<\/strong> called it \u201ca freak injury\u201d after checking on Vanderbilt on the court, while <strong data-start=\"2102\" data-end=\"2118\">LeBron James<\/strong> said: \u201cIf Vando was in pain, then something actually really happened.\u201d Vanderbilt finished Game 1 with 2 points and 1 rebound in 6 minutes.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2260\" data-end=\"2404\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Los Angeles Lakers forward suffered the injury while trying to stop Chet Holmgren in the Western Conference semifinals opener<\/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-495672","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\/495672","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=495672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495672\/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=495672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=495672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495672"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=495672"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=495672"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=495672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}