{"id":393116,"date":"2011-04-23T20:47:20","date_gmt":"2011-04-23T20:47:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/04\/23\/paul-practices-with-wrap-on-thumb-injury-ap\/"},"modified":"2011-04-23T20:47:20","modified_gmt":"2011-04-23T20:47:20","slug":"paul-practices-with-wrap-on-thumb-injury-ap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/04\/23\/paul-practices-with-wrap-on-thumb-injury-ap\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul practices with wrap on thumb injury (AP)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"44.8636363636\">\n<p>NEW ORLEANS (AP)\u2014<span><a href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nba\/players\/3930\/\">Chris Paul<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nba\/players\/3930\/news\">(notes)<\/a><\/span> is practicing with a wrap on his left hand, the result of a thumb injury during the Hornets\u2019 loss to the Lakers in Game 3 of their first-round playoff series Friday night.<\/p>\n<p>Paul says he expects to be fine for Sunday\u2019s Game 4, and Hornets coach Monty Williams says Paul did not appear to be limited by the injury to his non-shooting hand in Saturday\u2019s practice.<\/p>\n<p>After falling behind 2-1 in their best-of-seven series, the Hornets can ill afford to be without Paul at his best. He\u2019s averaged 25 points and 10.3 assists in the series.<\/p>\n<p><span><a href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nba\/players\/3118\/\">Kobe Bryant<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nba\/players\/3118\/news\">(notes)<\/a><\/span> says the Lakers were pleased with their balance in Friday\u2019s 14-point victory, but must be ready to respond to the Hornets\u2019 adjustments and intensity in the pivotal Game 4.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>More here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/us.rd.yahoo.com\/sports\/rss\/nba\/SIG=11r34qjic\/*http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nba\/news?slug=ap-lakers-hornets\" title=\"Paul practices with wrap on thumb injury (AP)\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Paul practices with wrap on thumb injury (AP)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> NEW ORLEANS (AP)\u2014 Chris Paul (notes) is practicing with a wrap on his left hand, the result of a thumb injury during the Hornets\u2019 loss to the Lakers in Game 3 of their first-round playoff series Friday night. Paul says he expects to be fine for Sunday\u2019s Game 4, and Hornets coach Monty Williams says Paul did not appear to be limited by the injury to his non-shooting hand in Saturday\u2019s practice. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-393116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Paul practices with wrap on thumb injury (AP) - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/04\/23\/paul-practices-with-wrap-on-thumb-injury-ap\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Paul practices with wrap on thumb injury (AP) - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"NEW ORLEANS (AP)\u2014 Chris Paul (notes) is practicing with a wrap on his left hand, the result of a thumb injury during the Hornets\u2019 loss to the Lakers in Game 3 of their first-round playoff series Friday night. 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