{"id":608252,"date":"2026-04-16T15:36:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T15:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/608252\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T15:36:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T15:36:08","slug":"hawks-backup-c-landale-out-for-beginning-of-series-vs-knicks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/608252\/","title":{"rendered":"Hawks backup C Landale out for beginning of series vs. Knicks"},"content":{"rendered":"

ATLANTA — Atlanta Hawks<\/a> center Jock Landale<\/a> will miss at least the first two weeks of the NBA playoffs because of his sprained right ankle.<\/p>\n

Landale averaged 9.1 points and 4.1 rebounds in 23 regular-season games with Atlanta. He sustained a high ankle sprain on April 1 at Orlando. The Hawks say he “is progressing in his rehabilitation” and “will be re-evaluated in approximately two weeks.” An update is expected after his re-evaluation.<\/p>\n

Atlanta’s Jock Landale will miss at least two weeks with a sprained ankle, meaning he is out for the start of the Hawks’ series vs. the New York Knicks.\u00a0Nathan Ray Seebeck\/Imagn Images<\/p>\n

Atlanta is the No. 6 seed in the Eastern Conference playoffs and opens its first-round series at the third-seeded New York Knicks<\/a> on Saturday.<\/p>\n

The Hawks addressed a lack of depth at center — Kristaps Porzingis<\/a> had been unavailable much of the season before being traded <\/a>in February to the Golden State Warriors<\/a>, and N’Faly Dante<\/a> is out for the year — by acquiring Landale from Utah for cash considerations in early February. He never played for the Jazz and was with them less than a day after being part of an eight-player trade involving Memphis.<\/p>\n

The 30-year-old Landale averaged 11.3 points and 6.5 rebounds in 45 games for Memphis.<\/p>\n

The Australian is in his fifth NBA season. He made his NBA debut with San Antonio in the 2021-22 season and also has played for Phoenix and Houston.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ATLANTA — Atlanta Hawks center Jock Landale will miss at least the first two weeks of the NBA…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":608253,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-608252","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\/608252","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=608252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608252\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/608253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=608252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=608252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=608252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}