{"id":435313,"date":"2023-05-11T09:38:43","date_gmt":"2023-05-11T13:38:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=435313"},"modified":"2023-05-11T09:59:35","modified_gmt":"2023-05-11T13:59:35","slug":"darivn-ham-optimistic-about-anthony-davis-before-friday-game","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/darivn-ham-optimistic-about-anthony-davis-before-friday-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Darivn Ham optimistic about Anthony Davis before Friday game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of Los Angeles Lakers&#8217; leaders Anthony Davis injured his head in what appeared to be an inadvertent hit by Golden State\u2019s Kevon Looney midway through the fourth quarter of the Warriors\u2019 121-106 Game 5 victory in the Western Conference semifinals Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Anthony Davis left the court to get evaluated after taking an inadvertent shot from Kevon Looney. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zluOAI4WvB\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/zluOAI4WvB<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 SportsCenter (@SportsCenter) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SportsCenter\/status\/1656514028850540545?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">May 11, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Davis sat on the bench before going to the locker room following the play with 7:43 remaining. Davis\u2019 status for Game 6 on Friday night back in Los Angeles is unclear but coach Darivn Ham was optimistic after the evaluation and checks for concussion.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cObviously, everyone saw he took a shot to the head, but we just checked in on him, he seems to be doing really good already,\u201d Ham said. \u201cThat\u2019s just where he\u2019s at. That\u2019s the status of it right now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cObviously, AD is huge to what we do. I believe he\u2019ll play, but if that\u2019s not the case, we\u2019re still a group of NBA basketball players that have played games without him this year,\u201d Reaves said. \u201cYou never want to play a big game without a guy like that. But that\u2019s the nature of the game.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of Los Angeles Lakers&#8217; leaders Anthony Davis injured his head in what appeared to be an inadvertent hit by Golden State\u2019s Kevon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":435314,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17077,16970],"news_category":[16714],"gn_keywords":[19253,17645],"acf":{"announce":"\u201cYou never want to play a big game without a guy like that\", he said","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\/435313"}],"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=435313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/435313\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/435314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435313"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=435313"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=435313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}