{"id":85604,"date":"2017-01-17T19:42:57","date_gmt":"2017-01-18T00:42:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=85604"},"modified":"2017-01-17T19:42:57","modified_gmt":"2017-01-18T00:42:57","slug":"chris-paul-to-undergo-surgery-for-torn-ligament-in-thumb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/01\/17\/chris-paul-to-undergo-surgery-for-torn-ligament-in-thumb\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Paul to undergo surgery for torn ligament in thumb"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_85605\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-85605\" style=\"width: 774px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/14717303_896500093817210_7329217570992168372_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-85605\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/14717303_896500093817210_7329217570992168372_n.jpg\" alt=\"Chris Paul (Pictured)  will undergo surgery on Wednesday to repair a torn ligament in his left thumb and is expected to miss six to eight weeks. (Photo: Chris Paul\/ Facebook)\" width=\"774\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/14717303_896500093817210_7329217570992168372_n.jpg 774w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/14717303_896500093817210_7329217570992168372_n-242x300.jpg 242w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/14717303_896500093817210_7329217570992168372_n-768x953.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 774px) 100vw, 774px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-85605\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chris Paul (Pictured) will undergo surgery on Wednesday to repair a torn ligament in his left thumb and is expected to miss six to eight weeks. (Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/CP3\/\">Chris Paul\/ Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>LOS ANGELES \u2013Chris Paul will undergo surgery on Wednesday to repair a torn ligament in his left thumb and is expected to miss six to eight weeks.<\/p>\n<p>The Clippers said Tuesday that their All-Star guard will continue to undergo treatment and evaluation by the club&#8217;s medical staff.<\/p>\n<p>Paul was injured on a first-half play involving Oklahoma City&#8217;s Russell Westbrook in Monday night&#8217;s victory over the Thunder. Paul didn&#8217;t return in the second half.<\/p>\n<p>Paul is averaging 17.5 points, 9.7 assists and 5.3 rebounds, and leads the NBA with 2.25 steals per game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES \u2013Chris Paul will undergo surgery on Wednesday to repair a torn ligament in his left thumb and is &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":85605,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[13805,566,13806],"class_list":["post-85604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-chris-paul","tag-injury","tag-the-clippers","mauthors-beth-harris","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85604\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}