{"id":40,"date":"2019-12-25T22:55:53","date_gmt":"2019-12-25T22:55:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/172.31.41.253\/2019\/12\/25\/report-pacers-oladipo-eyes\/"},"modified":"2019-12-26T15:53:37","modified_gmt":"2019-12-26T15:53:37","slug":"report-pacers-oladipo-eyes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pieroselvaggio.com\/2019\/12\/25\/report-pacers-oladipo-eyes\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Pacers&#8217; Oladipo eyes late January return"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Indiana Pacers guard Victor Oladipo hopes to make his return from a ruptured right quad tendon in about a month, ESPN reported on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<p>Per the report, Oladipo hopes to return as soon as late January or perhaps in early February, which would be about a year removed from his injury.<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<p>Oladipo was injured Jan. 23 and has not played since, though he has steadily ramped up his rehab and workouts recently. The Pacers were 32-15 at the time of his injury, before going 16-19 the rest of the season and getting swept by Boston in the first round of the postseason.<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<p>This year, the Pacers have started 21-10 without Oladipo, putting them within 1 1\/2 games of the second spot in the Eastern Conference.<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<p>Oladipo was in the middle of his second consecutive All-Star campaign when he was hurt, averaging 18.8 points, 5.6 rebounds and 5.2 assists across 36 games. In 2017-18, his first season with the Pacers, he averaged a career-high 23.1 points with 5.2 rebounds and 4.3 assists along with a league-best 2.4 steals per game.<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<p>The 27-year-old is in his seventh NBA season. He spent his first three with the Orlando Magic before one year in Oklahoma City. He was acquired by Indiana &#8212; along with big man Domantas Sabonis &#8212; in exchange for Paul George in July of 2017.<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<p>&#8211;Field Level Media<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/172.31.41.253\/2019\/12\/25\/report-pacers-oladipo-eyes\/nba-indianapolis-pacers-media-day\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/172.31.41.253\/wp-content\/uploads\/Reuters_Direct_Media\/USOnlineReportSportsNews\/tagreuters.com2019binary_LYNXMPEFBO0K2-BASEIMAGE.jpg\" alt=\"tagreuters.com2019binary_LYNXMPEFBO0K2-BASEIMAGE\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indiana Pacers guard Victor Oladipo hopes to make his return from a ruptured right quad&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pieroselvaggio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pieroselvaggio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pieroselvaggio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pieroselvaggio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pieroselvaggio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pieroselvaggio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pieroselvaggio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pieroselvaggio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pieroselvaggio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}