{"id":479960,"date":"2024-03-10T08:27:59","date_gmt":"2024-03-10T12:27:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=479960"},"modified":"2024-03-09T23:04:27","modified_gmt":"2024-03-10T03:04:27","slug":"chicagos-lavine-ahead-of-schedule-after-foot-procedure","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/chicagos-lavine-ahead-of-schedule-after-foot-procedure\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago\u2019s LaVine ahead of schedule after foot procedure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/chicago-bulls\/\">Chicago Bulls<\/a> player Zach LaVine shared he is ahead of schedule in his recovery from campaign-ending procedure on his right foot and thinks that he will be healthy for the beginning of the next campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Zack met the Bulls in LA, where he lives and has been rehabbing, for today\u2019s 112-102 defeat against the Clippers. LaVine explained why he decided to underwent procedure in the past month, sharing he had a floating bone in his foot for a long period. Chicago had made it a point to feature in a news release that the decision to have the surgery was made by the guard and his agents.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You never want to have a procedure,&#8221; LaVine admitted. &#8220;But I got to a conclusion, specifically with what the doctor was telling me, your pain level; this thing isn\u2019t going to heal without proper surgery.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Zack\u2019s campaign ended after he appeared in only 25 matches, as he has suffered with right foot problems since the beginning of the campaign.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Zach LaVine on the process of deciding to undergo surgery: \u201cI was pretty much trying to figure out every way not to.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Defined the injury as a nonunion Jones fracture, which means part of the base of his fifth metatarsal was essentially floating in his foot. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/coVHAPXwBF\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/coVHAPXwBF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Julia Poe (@byjuliapoe) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/byjuliapoe\/status\/1766575515941360002?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March 9, 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>Chicago Bulls player Zach LaVine shared he is ahead of schedule in his recovery from campaign-ending procedure on his right foot and thinks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":479961,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16719,17837,16891],"news_category":[16706,14084],"gn_keywords":[18347,20531,1067],"acf":{"announce":"The Bulls guard admitted that he is ahead of schedule after the surgery.","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\/479960"}],"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=479960"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/479960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":479975,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/479960\/revisions\/479975"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/479961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479960"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=479960"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=479960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}