{"id":3595,"date":"2012-11-04T00:31:48","date_gmt":"2012-11-04T05:31:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/inkstarzz.com\/sports\/?p=3153"},"modified":"2012-11-04T00:31:48","modified_gmt":"2012-11-04T05:31:48","slug":"monty-williams-talks-about-the-nba-concussion-policy-he-doesnt-like-it-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yesiball.com\/sports\/2012\/11\/04\/monty-williams-talks-about-the-nba-concussion-policy-he-doesnt-like-it-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Monty Williams Talks About The NBA Concussion Policy&#8230;He Doesn&#8217;t Like It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Orleans Hornets rookie Anthony Davis was injured vs the Utah Jazz after being hit in the head by teammate Austin Rivers. The hit didn&#8217;t look too serious, but Davis was ruled out with a concussion. <\/p>\n<p>In the NBA, if you get a concussion, you have to go through a series of test before you can see game action again and Monty Williams isn&#8217;t too fond of the process. Here is some of what Williams told ESPNChicago.com:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;When you&#8217;re dealing with the brain, I guess what&#8217;s happening in football has impacted everybody,&#8221; Williams said before the game. &#8220;He got touched up a little bit last night. That happens a lot in basketball. It&#8217;s just that now they treat everybody like they have white gloves and pink drawers and it&#8217;s getting old. It&#8217;s just the way the league is now.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m not saying I don&#8217;t like (the policy),&#8221; Williams said. &#8220;We&#8217;ve got to protect the players, but I think the players should have more say-so in how they feel. I&#8217;m sure I had four or five concussions when I played, and it didn&#8217;t bother me. The NBA is doing what&#8217;s necessary to protect the players, but this is not the NFL. You don&#8217;t get hit in the head that much. I understand it. But as a coach, I&#8217;m a baby about it. I want my guys ready to play. That&#8217;s basically the bottom line; I&#8217;m just a baby.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Orleans Hornets rookie Anthony Davis was injured vs the Utah Jazz after being hit in the head by teammate Austin Rivers. The hit didn&#8217;t look too serious, but Davis was ruled out with a concussion. In the NBA, if you get a concussion, you have to go through a series of test before you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3154,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[929],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yesiball.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3595"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yesiball.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yesiball.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yesiball.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yesiball.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.yesiball.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3595\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yesiball.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yesiball.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yesiball.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yesiball.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}