{"id":40484,"date":"2025-05-02T20:20:31","date_gmt":"2025-05-02T20:20:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/02\/lakers-lebron-james-reportedly-suffered-mcl-sprain-in-playoff-ouster\/"},"modified":"2025-05-02T20:20:31","modified_gmt":"2025-05-02T20:20:31","slug":"lakers-lebron-james-reportedly-suffered-mcl-sprain-in-playoff-ouster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/02\/lakers-lebron-james-reportedly-suffered-mcl-sprain-in-playoff-ouster\/","title":{"rendered":"Lakers\u2019 LeBron James reportedly suffered MCL sprain in playoff ouster"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>James sustained Grade 2 MCL sprain in knee per report<\/li>\n<li>Lakers\u2019 season ended with Game 5 loss to Timberwolves<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Los Angeles Lakers superstar LeBron James sustained a Grade 2 MCL sprain in his left knee during Game 5 of the Western Conference first-round series against the Minnesota Timberwolves, ESPN reported on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The Timberwolves ended that series in that game on Wednesday, courtesy of a 103-96 victory. Had the Lakers staved off elimination in that contest, the injury likely would have kept James off the court for three to five weeks.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2025\/may\/02\/lebron-james-knee-injury-report-lakers-loss\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James sustained Grade 2 MCL sprain in knee per report Lakers\u2019 season ended with Game 5 loss to Timberwolves Los Angeles Lakers superstar LeBron James sustained a Grade 2 MCL sprain in his left knee during Game 5 of the Western Conference first-round series against the Minnesota Timberwolves, ESPN reported on Friday. The Timberwolves ended &#8230; <a title=\"Lakers\u2019 LeBron James reportedly suffered MCL sprain in playoff ouster\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/02\/lakers-lebron-james-reportedly-suffered-mcl-sprain-in-playoff-ouster\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Lakers\u2019 LeBron James reportedly suffered MCL sprain in playoff ouster\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40484\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}