{"id":158166,"date":"2025-07-09T12:01:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-09T12:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/158166\/"},"modified":"2025-07-09T12:01:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T12:01:10","slug":"lonzo-ball-the-cavs-the-hail-mary-surgery-terry-pluto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/158166\/","title":{"rendered":"Lonzo Ball, the Cavs &#038; the \u2018Hail Mary\u2019 surgery \u2014 Terry Pluto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/1752062470_897_XWWFXI5DQRAXRJMEWB7BSA7TKE.jpg\"  fetchpriority=\"high\" loading=\"eager\" alt=\"Healthy Lonzo Ball could push Cavs to NBA Finals: Crowquill\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"article__image-content\" height=\"600\" width=\"300\"\/>Illustration by Ted Crow for Crowquill. The Cavs acquire Lonzo Ball hoping he can stay healthy enough to help them win a championship.&#13;&#13;Ted Crow<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"PVECQYFSNBDUPBR2S2Z3TDFNGM\">CLEVELAND, Ohio \u2014 You\u2019re Lonzo Ball. You stand in front of the media at the Cavaliers\u2019 practice facility.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"RZRHHJCH3JGBJC4AZCVGWJUM3U\">You are quiet and thoughtful. You\u2019re excited to be with a new team, a good team. You are hopeful you can stay healthy. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--center skimlinks\">If you purchase a product or register for an account through a link on our site, we may receive compensation. By using this site, you consent to our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.advancelocal.com\/advancelocalUserAgreement\/user-agreement.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">User Agreement<\/a> and agree that your clicks, interactions, and personal information may be collected, recorded, and\/or stored by us and social media and other third-party partners in accordance with our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.advancelocal.com\/advancelocalUserAgreement\/privacy-policy.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Privacy Policy.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Illustration by Ted Crow for Crowquill. The Cavs acquire Lonzo Ball hoping he can stay healthy enough to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":158037,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3772],"tags":[26794,7,306,305,193,3846,6,3731],"class_list":{"0":"post-158166","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cleveland-cavaliers","8":"tag-_1236419","9":"tag-basketball","10":"tag-cavaliers","11":"tag-cleveland","12":"tag-cleveland-cavaliers","13":"tag-clevelandcavaliers","14":"tag-nba","15":"tag-rocket-mortgage-fieldhouse"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/114823173846789110","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158166\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/158037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}