{"id":20844,"date":"2013-04-25T15:25:11","date_gmt":"2013-04-25T19:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=20844"},"modified":"2013-04-25T15:25:11","modified_gmt":"2013-04-25T19:25:11","slug":"garnett-to-play-game-3-despite-hip-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=20844","title":{"rendered":"Garnett To Play Game 3 Despite Hip Injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BOSTON &#8212;<strong> Kevin Garnett <\/strong>walked over to the Boston bench, nursing a sore hip and Celtics coach <strong>Doc Rivers <\/strong>asked repeatedly if his big man needed a break. It was going to take more than that to knock Garnett out of the playoffs.<\/p>\n<p>&#8221;He&#8217;s good. He&#8217;s good to go,&#8221; <strong>Rivers <\/strong>said Wednesday during a conference call with reporters. &#8221;He&#8217;ll practice tomorrow, and he&#8217;ll play on Friday.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Garnett <\/strong>appeared to clutch his stomach while going for a rebound early in the fourth quarter, but he wouldn&#8217;t let<strong> Rivers<\/strong> take him out of the game. &#8221;He got hit in the hip, very similar to having a hip pointer in football. It&#8217;s affecting him. I was concerned he was grabbing something else,&#8221;<strong> Rivers <\/strong>said. &#8221;In a couple timeouts, I was asking if he was OK.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BOSTON &#8212; Kevin Garnett walked over to the Boston bench, nursing a sore hip and Celtics coach Doc Rivers asked repeatedly if his big man needed a break. It was going to take more than that to knock Garnett out of the playoffs. &#8221;He&#8217;s good. He&#8217;s good to go,&#8221; Rivers said Wednesday during a conference [&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-20844","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\/20844","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=20844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20844\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}