{"id":15005,"date":"2022-04-16T11:53:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-16T11:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/hawks-center-clint-capela-injures-knee-in-play-in-game-vs-cavs-nba-blog\/"},"modified":"2022-04-16T11:53:00","modified_gmt":"2022-04-16T11:53:00","slug":"hawks-center-clint-capela-injures-knee-in-play-in-game-vs-cavs-nba-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/hawks-center-clint-capela-injures-knee-in-play-in-game-vs-cavs-nba-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"Hawks center Clint Capela injures knee in play-in game vs. Cavs \u2013 NBA Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"post-28093\">\n\t<!-- .entry-header --><\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>Late second quarter in the Atlanta Hawks play-in tournament game in Cleveland against the Cavaliers, Hawks center Clint Capela fouled Cavs big-man Evan Mobley. The foul pulled Mobley in the direction of Capela, resulting in a fall that led to what the Hawks say is a right knee hyperextension.<\/p>\n<p>Per the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, \u201cCapela went down in pain and immediately grabbed his knee after fouling Cleveland\u2019s Evan Mobley, with Mobley then falling on Capela\u2019s knee. Capela was helped back to the Hawks\u2019 locker room.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Capela won\u2019t return tonight.<\/p>\n<p>The Hawks are already playing without John Collins, so this weakens their frontcourt even further.<\/p>\n<p>Mid third quarter, the Cavs lead, 70-59.<\/p>\n<p>The winner of this game will win a spot in the 2022 playoffs as the East\u2019s No. 8 seed, and will face the Miami Heat in the first round.<\/p>\n<div class=\"author-info\">\n<div class=\"author-avatar\">\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p><!-- .author-avatar --><\/p>\n<div class=\"author-description\">\n<h2 class=\"author-title\"><span class=\"author-heading\">Author:<\/span> Inside Hoops<\/h2>\n<p class=\"author-bio\">\n\t\t\tInsideHoops.com has been a world leader in NBA basketball coverage for over 20 years. Read our blog, but also be sure to read our main website on www.insidehoops.com\t\t\t<a class=\"author-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.insidehoops.com\/blog\/?author=2\" rel=\"author\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\tView all posts by Inside Hoops\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t<\/p>\n<p><!-- .author-bio -->\n\t<\/div>\n<p><!-- .author-description -->\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- .author-info -->\n\t<\/div>\n<p><!-- .entry-content --><\/p>\n<p>\t<!-- .entry-footer -->\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Late second quarter in the Atlanta Hawks play-in tournament game in Cleveland against the Cavaliers, Hawks center Clint Capela fouled Cavs big-man Evan Mobley. The foul pulled Mobley in the direction of Capela, resulting in a fall that led to what the Hawks say is a right knee hyperextension. Per the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, \u201cCapela went<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[176],"tags":[1749,850,1748,763,2936],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15005"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15005"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15006,"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15005\/revisions\/15006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}