{"id":480861,"date":"2024-03-23T08:27:17","date_gmt":"2024-03-23T12:27:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=480861"},"modified":"2024-03-22T22:43:29","modified_gmt":"2024-03-23T02:43:29","slug":"clippers-westbrook-to-return-next-week","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/clippers-westbrook-to-return-next-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Clippers\u2019 Westbrook to return next week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Los Angeles Clippers star Russell Westbrook is expected to return to the court next week, possibly on Monday vs. the <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/indiana-pacers\/\">Indiana Pacers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Russell Westbrook is expected to return to the Clippers next week &#8212; as soon as Monday, per <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wojespn?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@wojespn<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>He had surgery three weeks ago to repair a fractured left hand. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/sKADagMNqE\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/sKADagMNqE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ball Don\u2019t Lie (@Balldontlie) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Balldontlie\/status\/1771288930144714832?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March 22, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Monday\u2019s match vs. Indiana will mark 21 days from when Russell underwent a procedure to repair a fractured left-hand problem he sustained at the beginning of the month vs. the Wizards.<\/p>\n<p>Los Angeles has missed the aggressive energy and hustle of 1 of the NBA\u2019s top 6<sup>th<\/sup> men. The franchise missed the aggressive energy and hustle of an ex-MVP player heading into today\u2019s match against the Trail Blazers.<\/p>\n<p>The point guard is averaging over 11 points, over 5 boards, and almost 5 assists in the current campaign in 58 matches. Westbrook started the 1<sup>st<\/sup> 10 matches of the campaign but decided to come off the bench to help the team mesh better after James Harden came to the team.<\/p>\n<p>From the 1<sup>st<\/sup> match, Westbrook came off the bench vs. the Rockets on November 17<sup>th<\/sup> to the time he sustained his hand problem vs. Washington on March 1<sup>st<\/sup>, his organization went 28-8.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Los Angeles Clippers star Russell Westbrook is expected to return to the court next week, possibly on Monday vs. the Indiana Pacers. Russell [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":480862,"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],"gn_keywords":[18478,19046,1067],"acf":{"announce":"Russell is expected to play again next week.","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\/480861"}],"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=480861"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/480861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":480864,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/480861\/revisions\/480864"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/480862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480861"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=480861"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=480861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}