{"id":244416,"date":"2025-10-27T23:13:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T23:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/244416\/"},"modified":"2025-10-27T23:13:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T23:13:08","slug":"zion-williamson-misses-first-game-of-season-with-left-foot-bone-bruise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/244416\/","title":{"rendered":"Zion Williamson misses first game of season with left foot bone bruise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">NEW ORLEANS (AP) \u2014 Zion Williamson won\u2019t play for New Orleans against the Boston Celtics on Monday night because of a left foot bone bruise.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">It\u2019s the first missed game of the season for the oft-injured Williamson, who is off to a strong start. He scored 27 points in each of the Pelicans\u2019 first two games and averaged 9.5 rebounds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Williamson came into the season having missed more games (268) than he\u2019s played (214) since being the No. 1 pick in the 2019 draft.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Both the Celtics and Pelicans were winless.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">AP NBA: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nba<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW ORLEANS (AP) \u2014 Zion Williamson won\u2019t play for New Orleans against the Boston Celtics on Monday night&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":244417,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-244416","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244416\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}