{"id":516425,"date":"2010-04-05T14:25:15","date_gmt":"2010-04-05T18:25:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/my.lakers.com\/blogs\/?p=16498"},"modified":"2010-04-05T14:25:15","modified_gmt":"2010-04-05T18:25:15","slug":"walton-plays-8-minutes-feels-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/516425","title":{"rendered":"Walton Plays 8 Minutes, Feels Good"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/my.lakers.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/lukewalton.jpg\" alt=\"60080903\" title=\"60080903\" width=\"250\" height=\"376\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-16502\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nba.com\/jm.jsp?ref=lakers_uclahealth&#038;dest=http:\/\/www.uclahealth.org\/\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/my.lakers.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/injuryreport_ucla.jpg\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a>Lakers forward Luke Walton played in a game for the first time since Feb. 10, earning eight minutes to produce two assists and provide some defensive energy without attempting a shot.<\/p>\n<p>Walton was on the floor to start the fourth quarter, helping the Lakers trim an 8-point Spurs lead down to three before checking out moments later.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a bench player you have to find a way to get active in the game besides that but it can be difficult and tough a lot of times just throw the ball down to Kobe (Bryant) and the ball down to Pau (Gasol) and they make plays,&#8221; he said. &#8220;You\u2019ve still have to somehow to get in there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As for his back, which has limited him to just 25 of 77 games this season?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt felt good,&#8221; he said. &#8220;The back felt good out there. My timing was a little off but that will come, that\u2019s nothing. But it was fun to be back out there.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lakers forward Luke Walton played in a game for the first time since Feb. 10, earning eight minutes to produce two assists and provide some defensive energy without attempting a shot. Walton was on the floor to start the fourth quarter, helping the Lakers trim an 8-point Spurs lead down to three before checking out [&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-516425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516425","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=516425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516425\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=516425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=516425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=516425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}