{"id":309312,"date":"2010-02-11T18:44:04","date_gmt":"2010-02-11T23:44:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/my.lakers.com\/blogs\/?p=15084"},"modified":"2010-02-11T18:44:04","modified_gmt":"2010-02-11T23:44:04","slug":"kidd-to-replace-kobe-in-all-star-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/309312","title":{"rendered":"Kidd to Replace Kobe in All-Star Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DALLAS, Feb. 11, 2010 \u2013 Dallas Mavericks guard Jason Kidd and New York Knicks forward David Lee have been named by NBA commissioner David Stern to <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/my.lakers.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/10allstar_kobe.jpg\" alt=\"Kobe Bryant\" title=\"10allstar_kobe\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-15090\" hspace=10 \/>replace injured West All-Star guard Kobe Bryant (ankle) of the Los Angeles Lakers and East All-Star guard Allen Iverson (personal reasons) of the Philadelphia 76ers, respectively, in the 2010 NBA All-Star Game in Dallas.<\/p>\n<p>Kidd, a two-time Olympic gold medalist and five-time All-NBA First Team selection, will be making his 10th NBA All-Star Game appearance. Lee, in his fifth NBA season, has recorded 30 double-doubles on the season for the Knicks and will be making his first NBA All-Star appearance.<\/p>\n<p>West All-Star head coach George Karl and East All-Star head coach Stan Van Gundy will determine which players will replace Bryant and Iverson in the starting lineup.<\/p>\n<p>The NBA All-Star Game will air live on TNT, ESPN Radio and in 200 countries and territories in more than 40 languages worldwide at 8 p.m. ET on Sunday, Feb. 14.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nba.com\/lakers\/allstar2010.html\">Lakers.com All-Star Central<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DALLAS, Feb. 11, 2010 \u2013 Dallas Mavericks guard Jason Kidd and New York Knicks forward David Lee have been named by NBA commissioner David Stern to replace injured West All-Star guard Kobe Bryant (ankle) of the Los Angeles Lakers and East All-Star guard Allen Iverson (personal reasons) of the Philadelphia 76ers, respectively, in the 2010 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5644,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-309312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5644"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309312\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}