{"id":769534,"date":"2022-12-27T16:24:04","date_gmt":"2022-12-27T21:24:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/?p=769534"},"modified":"2022-12-27T16:24:06","modified_gmt":"2022-12-27T21:24:06","slug":"j-b-bickerstaff-ricky-rubios-torn-acl-rehab-progressing-in-the-right-direction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/news\/nba\/j-b-bickerstaff-ricky-rubios-torn-acl-rehab-progressing-in-the-right-direction\/","title":{"rendered":"J.B. Bickerstaff: Ricky Rubio&#8217;s Torn ACL Rehab &#8216;Progressing in the Right Direction&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Cleveland head coach J.B. Bickerstaff gave an injury news update on <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/?s=Ricky+Rubio\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/?s=Ricky+Rubio\" target=\"_blank\">Ricky Rubio&#8217;s<\/a> rehab from the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/nba\/ricky-rubio-out-for-the-remainder-of-the-season-with-a-torn-acl\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/nba\/ricky-rubio-out-for-the-remainder-of-the-season-with-a-torn-acl\/\" target=\"_blank\">season-ending torn ACL<\/a> he suffered last year, revealing that Rubio could come back in January.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I would expect him, if things go the right way, sometime early next month,&#8221; Bickerstaff said. &#8220;So we&#8217;re definitely progressing in the right direction.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Cavs?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Cavs<\/a> J.B. Bickerstaff on Ricky Rubio\u2019s progression: \u201cI would expect him, if things go the right way, sometime early next month. So we&#39;re definitely progressing in the right direction.\u201d<\/p>&mdash; Kelsey Russo (@kelseyyrusso) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kelseyyrusso\/status\/1607807595443527680?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 27, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n\n\n\n<p>Rubio was averaging a career-best 13.1 points, 4.1 rebounds, 6.6 assists, and 1.4 steals per game on 36.3 percent shooting from the field and 33.9 percent from beyond the arc when he suffered the injury on Dec. 28. At the time, Rubio played a significant role in Cleveland&#8217;s massive turnaround to becoming a play-in tournament participant. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As a veteran point guard, Rubio helped Darius Garland and Jarrett Allen become All-Stars. The positive impact he had was so palpable that after he got <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/nba\/cleveland-cavalier-trade-ricky-rubio-for-caris-levert\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/nba\/cleveland-cavalier-trade-ricky-rubio-for-caris-levert\/\" target=\"_blank\">traded to Indiana<\/a> for <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/?s=Caris+LeVert\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/?s=Caris+LeVert\" target=\"_blank\">Caris LeVert<\/a>, Cleveland re-signed him over the summer to a three-year pact despite Rubio missing a chunk of time rehabbing his knee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cleveland head coach J.B. Bickerstaff gave an injury news update on Ricky Rubio&#8217;s rehab from the season-ending torn ACL he suffered last year, revealing that Rubio could come back in January. &#8220;I would expect him, if things go the right way, sometime early next month,&#8221; Bickerstaff said. &#8220;So we&#8217;re definitely progressing in the right direction.&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":447,"featured_media":769535,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62698,18,63826,62493],"tags":[13006,64024,64870,171],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-769534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cleveland-cavaliers","category-nba","category-news","category-newswire","tag-cleveland-cavaliers","tag-injury-news","tag-j-b-bickerstaff-3","tag-ricky-rubio"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/447"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=769534"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":769539,"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769534\/revisions\/769539"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/769535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=769534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=769534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=769534"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=769534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}