{"id":20421,"date":"2013-04-04T13:43:31","date_gmt":"2013-04-04T17:43:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=20421"},"modified":"2013-04-04T13:43:31","modified_gmt":"2013-04-04T17:43:31","slug":"kevin-ware-ill-be-back-to-louisville-basketball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=20421","title":{"rendered":"Kevin Ware: \u2018I\u2019ll Be Back\u2019 To Louisville Basketball"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As Louisville\u2019s<strong> Kevin Ware<\/strong> recovers from a broken right leg suffered in the NCAA Tournament on Sunday, he has received tweets from celebrities and even a phone call from <strong>First Lady Michelle Obama<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>A self-proclaimed \u201cshy guy,\u2019\u2019 <strong>Ware<\/strong> told <strong>Craig Melvin<\/strong> on TODAY Thursday that he appreciated the support. But the details of the first lady\u2019s call remain a little fuzzy. \u201cI was so drugged, honestly,\u2019\u2019 <strong>Ware<\/strong> said, laughing. <strong>Ware<\/strong>, 20, underwent surgery to repair his right leg, which was broken in two places in the first half of a win over Duke in the Midwest Regional final. The sophomore guard was released by the hospital and returned to the Louisville campus on Tuesday. He plans on being on the bench supporting the Cardinals in their Final Four game on Saturday against Wichita State.<\/p>\n<p>Doctors expect him to make a full recovery, and <strong>Ware<\/strong> is determined to return to the court, which could take six to eight months. \u201cI\u2019ll be back starting next season,\u2019\u2019 <strong>Ware<\/strong> told <strong>Melvin<\/strong>. \u201cI haven\u2019t (watched the video), don\u2019t want to,\u2019\u2019 <strong>Ware <\/strong>said. \u201cI\u2019m going to stay as far from that video as possible.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Louisville\u2019s Kevin Ware recovers from a broken right leg suffered in the NCAA Tournament on Sunday, he has received tweets from celebrities and even a phone call from First Lady Michelle Obama. A self-proclaimed \u201cshy guy,\u2019\u2019 Ware told Craig Melvin on TODAY Thursday that he appreciated the support. But the details of the first [&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-20421","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\/20421","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=20421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20421\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}