{"id":432074,"date":"2023-03-28T12:27:18","date_gmt":"2023-03-28T16:27:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=432074"},"modified":"2023-03-28T09:10:38","modified_gmt":"2023-03-28T13:10:38","slug":"lebron-to-hell-with-the-play-in-we-can-be-a-top-eight-seed","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/lebron-to-hell-with-the-play-in-we-can-be-a-top-eight-seed\/","title":{"rendered":"LeBron: To hell with the play-in, we can be a top-eight seed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LA Lakers&#8217; star LeBron James made it back in exactly four weeks after his injury, missing 13 games, in time to participate in his team final push to qualify for the playoffs.<\/p>\n<p>With two weeks remaining in the regular season, the loss to Chicago dropped L.A. to No. 9 in the Western Conference standings, but only two games behind the No. 6 Golden State Warriors.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cObviously, the rhythm is the most important,\u201d James said. \u201cI had a couple of drives and the ball got away from me. A couple of shots didn\u2019t feel as good as before, obviously. But I was out for four weeks, so between that and the wind, just trying to get those things back leading to the final stretch of the season.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo hell with the play-in; we actually can be a top-eight seed,\u201d James said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LA Lakers&#8217; star LeBron James made it back in exactly four weeks after his injury, missing 13 games, in time to participate in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":432075,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16972,16970],"news_category":[16706],"gn_keywords":[17644,17645],"acf":{"announce":"James returned to action four weeks after his injury","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/432074"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=432074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/432074\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/432075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432074"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=432074"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=432074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}