{"id":479402,"date":"2024-03-02T09:45:21","date_gmt":"2024-03-02T13:45:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=479402"},"modified":"2024-03-02T09:45:21","modified_gmt":"2024-03-02T13:45:21","slug":"clippers-westbrook-hurts-hand-sidelined-indefinitely","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/clippers-westbrook-hurts-hand-sidelined-indefinitely\/","title":{"rendered":"Clippers\u2019 Westbrook hurts hand, sidelined indefinitely"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Los Angeles Clippers could be without ex-MVP Russell Westbrook for several weeks after the star fractured his left hand in the 1<sup>st<\/sup> half of their 140-115 victory vs. the Washington Wizards.<\/p>\n<p>Manager Ty Lue shared that the team was still evaluating the problem.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I send my sympathy to Westbrook at the moment,&#8221; Lue shared. &#8220;You never want to see a basketballer get injured. Wizards\u2019 Poole drove around, and Russ tried to deflect it from the back. I think he struck his elbow with his hand.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At the moment, we don\u2019t know when he will be on the court again. We don&#8217;t know if Westbrook must undergo a procedure or anything yet. But Russ is sidelined at the moment. We will know more in the upcoming days.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The point guard rarely didn\u2019t play due to injury. But in the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> match of the 2014-15 campaign, Russ broke his right hand. The former MVP underwent a procedure on November 1<sup>st<\/sup> and returned to the court on November 24<sup>th<\/sup>, 2014, missing only 14 matches.<\/p>\n<p>Russ appeared on the court for 10 minutes and left injured in the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> quarter with 6 points.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\u201cI don&#8217;t know what&#8217;s going on. I didn&#8217;t even know [he had a fractured hand]&#8230; [We\u2019ll miss] his athleticism, his energy, his play-making ability, his leadership.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>James Harden on Russell Westbrook&#8217;s injury.<\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TomerAzarly?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@TomerAzarly<\/a>) <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zxAF3x07ZM\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/zxAF3x07ZM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 ClutchPoints (@ClutchPoints) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ClutchPoints\/status\/1763828241247473901?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March 2, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Los Angeles Clippers could be without ex-MVP Russell Westbrook for several weeks after the star fractured his left hand in the 1st [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":479403,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17188,17837,17363],"news_category":[16706,14084],"gn_keywords":[17645,19046,1067],"acf":{"announce":"Russell is out indefinitely for Los Angeles after he fractured his hand.","video":["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\/479402"}],"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\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=479402"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/479402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":479405,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/479402\/revisions\/479405"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/479403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479402"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=479402"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=479402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}