{"id":19299,"date":"2013-01-28T16:02:59","date_gmt":"2013-01-28T21:02:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=19299"},"modified":"2013-01-28T16:02:59","modified_gmt":"2013-01-28T21:02:59","slug":"celtics-rondo-tears-right-acl-season-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=19299","title":{"rendered":"Celtics\u2019 Rondo Tears Right ACL; Season Over"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BOSTON \u2014 Boston Celtics star point guard <strong>Rajon Rondo<\/strong> will miss the rest of the season with a torn anterior cruciate ligament in his right knee.<\/p>\n<p>The news came during Boston\u2019s 100-98 double-overtime win over the Miami Heat on Sunday in which <strong>Ray Allen<\/strong> returned to his old home court for the first time. \u2018\u2019New guys are going to get an opportunity now,\u2019\u2018 Boston forward <strong>Paul Pierce<\/strong> said. \u2018\u2019These guys haven\u2019t had a chance to really showcase what they can do.\u2019\u2018<\/p>\n<p>For the past five seasons, <strong>Pierce<\/strong>, <strong>Allen<\/strong> and<strong> Kevin Garnett<\/strong> made up the Big Three. After <strong>Allen<\/strong> signed with the Heat as a free agent in the offseason, <strong>Rondo<\/strong> joined that group &#8211; and became the team leader with his ability to run the offense. He was chosen as the starting point guard for the Eastern Conference in the All-Star game in Houston on Feb. 17. Now the Celtics hope he can be ready for the start of next season.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018\u2019How far is that?\u2019\u2018 coach <strong>Doc Rivers<\/strong> said, \u2018\u2019I don\u2019t even know how long that is. Eight months? Nine months? So he\u2019ll probably be ready, but I don\u2019t know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BOSTON \u2014 Boston Celtics star point guard Rajon Rondo will miss the rest of the season with a torn anterior cruciate ligament in his right knee. The news came during Boston\u2019s 100-98 double-overtime win over the Miami Heat on Sunday in which Ray Allen returned to his old home court for the first time. \u2018\u2019New [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19299\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}