{"id":1403,"date":"2022-12-29T03:00:12","date_gmt":"2022-12-29T03:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2022\/12\/29\/okcs-aleksej-pokusevski-out-for-6-8-weeks-due-to-left-leg-fracture-talkbasket-net\/"},"modified":"2022-12-29T03:00:12","modified_gmt":"2022-12-29T03:00:12","slug":"okcs-aleksej-pokusevski-out-for-6-8-weeks-due-to-left-leg-fracture-talkbasket-net","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2022\/12\/29\/okcs-aleksej-pokusevski-out-for-6-8-weeks-due-to-left-leg-fracture-talkbasket-net\/","title":{"rendered":"OKC&#8217;s Aleksej Pokusevski out for 6-8 weeks due to left leg fracture &#8211; TalkBasket.net"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><a href=\"https:\/\/www.talkbasket.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/pokusevski.webp\" data-caption=\"Photo: Getty Images\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"696\" height=\"464\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.talkbasket.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/pokusevski-696x464.webp\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.talkbasket.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/pokusevski-696x464.webp 696w, https:\/\/www.talkbasket.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/pokusevski-560x373.webp 560w, https:\/\/www.talkbasket.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/pokusevski.webp 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" alt=\"\" title=\"Aleksej Pokusevski\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Aleksej Pokusevski will be absent on the Oklahoma City Thunder for six to eight weeks of team activities due to a non-displaced tibial plateau fracture in his left leg, the team announced on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Pokusevski suffered the said injury back in OKC\u2019s Tuesday 130-114 win over the San Antonio Spurs, wherein he only played two minutes prior to his exit.<\/p>\n<p>The lanky, 21-year-old Pokusevski is registering 8.8 points, 5.1 boards and 2.0 assists this year, starting in 25 out of his 31 games played. He is meanwhile improving from distance and shooting a career best in three with 37.6 percent clip.<\/p>\n<p>With Jeremiah Robinson-Earl also out due to an ankle injury, coach Mark Daigneault may further elevate the role and minutes of veteran Mike Muscala in a temporary basis.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Thunder PR:<\/p>\n<p>Aleksej Poku\u0161evski sustained a non-displaced tibial plateau fracture in his left leg in last night\u2019s Thunder game against the San Antonio Spurs. He is out and will be re-evaluated in approximately six to eight weeks.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Clemente Almanza (@CAlmanza1007) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CAlmanza1007\/status\/1608277584625778690?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">December 29, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote><\/div>\n<\/figure><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.talkbasket.net\/156899-okcs-aleksej-pokusevski-out-for-6-8-weeks-due-to-left-leg-fracture\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo: Getty Images Aleksej Pokusevski will be absent on the Oklahoma City Thunder for six to eight weeks of team activities due to a non-displaced tibial plateau fracture in his left leg, the team announced on Wednesday. Pokusevski suffered the said injury back in OKC\u2019s Tuesday 130-114 win over the San Antonio Spurs, wherein he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1404,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1403"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1403\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}