{"id":17796,"date":"2022-12-23T14:41:10","date_gmt":"2022-12-23T14:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/grizzlies-guard-desmond-bane-close-to-return-nba-blog-nba-basketball-blog\/"},"modified":"2022-12-23T14:41:10","modified_gmt":"2022-12-23T14:41:10","slug":"grizzlies-guard-desmond-bane-close-to-return-nba-blog-nba-basketball-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/grizzlies-guard-desmond-bane-close-to-return-nba-blog-nba-basketball-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"Grizzlies guard Desmond Bane close to return \u2013 NBA Blog \u2013 NBA Basketball Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"post-29597\">\n\t<!-- .entry-header --><\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>Via the Memphis Commercial Appeal:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\nThe Memphis Grizzlies could get an early Christmas present as Desmond Bane was upgraded to questionable on Thursday ahead of the team\u2019s matchup at the Phoenix Suns Friday (9 p.m., Bally Sports Southeast\/ESPN).<\/p>\n<p>Bane has missed 17 games since being out with a sprained right toe suffered on Nov. 11. On Dec. 7, the Grizzlies said he\u2019d miss at least three-to-four additional weeks as he began a gradual re-loading protocol.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The Grizzlies are 19-11 this season, which ties them with the Denver Nuggets for the best record in the Western conference.<\/p>\n<p>Their leading scorers so far in 2022-23 are Ja Morant at 27.0 PPG, Bane at 24.7 PPG, Dillon Brooks at 18.0 PPG, and Jaren Jackson Jr. at 16.4 PPG.<\/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>Via the Memphis Commercial Appeal: The Memphis Grizzlies could get an early Christmas present as Desmond Bane was upgraded to questionable on Thursday ahead of the team\u2019s matchup at the Phoenix Suns Friday (9 p.m., Bally Sports Southeast\/ESPN). Bane has missed 17 games since being out with a sprained right toe suffered on Nov. 11.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17745,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[176],"tags":[255,1667,1398,493,302,198],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17796"}],"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=17796"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17797,"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17796\/revisions\/17797"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}