{"id":602591,"date":"2026-02-14T10:59:18","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T10:59:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/602591\/"},"modified":"2026-02-14T10:59:18","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T10:59:18","slug":"darius-garlands-toe-will-sideline-him-longer-than-initially-expected-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/602591\/","title":{"rendered":"Darius Garland\u2019s toe will sideline him longer than initially expected"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">He (Garland) mentioned in his Clippers introduction that he is \u201cback on the court, working out, doing all the things I love to do. Just waiting on the green light \u2014 I\u2019m ready to hoop.\u201d (Lawrence) Frank (Clippers President of Basketball Operations) said that the Clippers will change Garland\u2019s injury designation to reflect that the right foot toe sprain that has kept him out for nearly four weeks has healed, while Garland\u2019s still-sore, surgically repaired left foot toe will keep him out indefinitely.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">\u201cWe are going to manage this correctly, OK?\u201d Frank said. \u201cWe are not gonna skip any steps. Because we think the short-term investment will lead to long-term rewards. \u2026 We\u2019re gonna get it right and take as long as it takes. But we\u2019re very confident that by taking the time now, it\u2019s gonna give him a long runway. He\u2019s only 26, and we want to see him playing at a high level for a long time.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He (Garland) mentioned in his Clippers introduction that he is \u201cback on the court, working out, doing all&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":602592,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3772],"tags":[7,306,305,193,3846,6,3101],"class_list":{"0":"post-602591","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cleveland-cavaliers","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-cavaliers","10":"tag-cleveland","11":"tag-cleveland-cavaliers","12":"tag-clevelandcavaliers","13":"tag-nba","14":"tag-nba-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116068637935068848","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602591","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=602591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602591\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/602592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=602591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=602591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=602591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}