{"id":384584,"date":"2026-01-03T01:40:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T01:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/384584\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T01:40:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T01:40:07","slug":"clippers-ivica-zubac-ankle-available-to-play-vs-celtics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/384584\/","title":{"rendered":"Clippers&#8217; Ivica Zubac (ankle) available to play vs. Celtics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-clubhouse-guid=\"083a58a6-b849-3501-e67b-059290d12295\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/lac\/la-clippers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">LA Clippers<\/a> center <a data-player-guid=\"314d5203-a973-39ef-ad47-e6bcd46f77fd\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/4017837\/ivica-zubac\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ivica Zubac<\/a> is available to return to action for Saturday&#8217;s home game against the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"2ca761df-5f60-b2e9-22ed-e099c46d889b\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/bos\/boston-celtics\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Boston Celtics<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Zubac wasn&#8217;t listed on the Clippers&#8217; injury report ahead of the game.<\/p>\n<p>It will be a quick return for Zubac after sustaining a Grade 2 ankle sprain during a Dec. 20 Clippers win over the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"2876e98b-b9bc-2920-4319-46e6943f8be4\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/lal\/los-angeles-lakers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Los Angeles Lakers<\/a>. Zubac fell to the court in a heap late in the first quarter and immediately hobbled to the locker room for evaluation. He finished with five points and two rebounds in 11 minutes in that game.<\/p>\n<p>Zubac&#8217;s return comes as the surging Clippers will be looking to win their seventh straight game.<\/p>\n<p>Zubac is averaging 15.6 points and 11.1 rebounds per game this season. He has started all 28 games he has played this season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LA Clippers center Ivica Zubac is available to return to action for Saturday&#8217;s home game against the Boston&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":384585,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[355,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-384584","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-nba","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=384584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384584\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/384585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}