{"id":363370,"date":"2010-02-25T15:37:14","date_gmt":"2010-02-25T20:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/my.lakers.com\/blogs\/?p=15454"},"modified":"2010-02-25T15:37:14","modified_gmt":"2010-02-25T20:37:14","slug":"lakers-take-thursday-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/363370","title":{"rendered":"Lakers Take Thursday Off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/my.lakers.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/artest_practice.jpg\" alt=\"59062825\" title=\"59062825\" width=\"500\" height=\"251\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15456\" \/>The Lakers will hold no official practice on Thursday, opting instead for rest leading into a Friday-Sunday slate of games against Philadelphia and Denver at STAPLES Center.<\/p>\n<p>As is customary, however, several players will congregate at L.A.&#8217;s practice facility for unofficial work outs, lifting sessions and treatment for various ailments. This group often includes but is not limited to L.A.&#8217;s non starters such as Jordan Farmar, Shannon Brown, D.J. Mbenga, Adam Morrison, Josh Powell and Luke Walton.<\/p>\n<p>Among the players that could use a bit of rest is Kobe Bryant, who after 18 days away from NBA games played about 40 minutes in consecutive games at Memphis and Dallas.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He was probably a little fatigued and tried to help other guys get going,&#8221; said Phil Jackson of his guard that scored 20 points and narrowly missed a game-tying three in the final minute.<\/p>\n<p>Bryant and his full complement of teammates will head back to official work at Friday morning&#8217;s shootaround, when they&#8217;ll prepare for the 76ers. <\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll be on hand to speak with assistant coach Brian Shaw for a video preview of the matchup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Lakers will hold no official practice on Thursday, opting instead for rest leading into a Friday-Sunday slate of games against Philadelphia and Denver at STAPLES Center. As is customary, however, several players will congregate at L.A.&#8217;s practice facility for unofficial work outs, lifting sessions and treatment for various ailments. This group often includes but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4162,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-363370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363370","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\/4162"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=363370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363370\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}