{"id":15001,"date":"2014-02-23T15:27:00","date_gmt":"2014-02-23T15:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/nets-sign-jason-collins-to-10-day-contract\/"},"modified":"2014-02-24T06:00:05","modified_gmt":"2014-02-24T06:00:05","slug":"nets-sign-jason-collins-to-10-day-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/nets-sign-jason-collins-to-10-day-contract\/","title":{"rendered":"Nets sign Jason Collins to 10-day contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Los Angeles, CA (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Brooklyn Nets have signed free agent Jason Collins to a 10-day contract, and the 35-year-old center played against the Los Angeles Lakers on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Although he didn&#8217;t score, Collins made history 1:32 into the second quarter when he checked into the game and became the first openly gay active player in one of North America&#8217;s four major team sports. Collinsplayed 10:37, missed the only shot he took, grabbed a pair of rebounds and committed five fouls.<\/p>\n<p>Collins revealed his sexuality nearly 10 months ago in an article he co-wrote for Sports Illustrated.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The decision to sign Jason was a basketball decision,&#8221; Nets general manager Billy King said in a statement. &#8220;We needed to increase our depth inside, and with his experience and size, we felt he was the right choice for a 10-day contract.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The 7-footer previously played for the New Jersey Nets from 2001-08 and was a member of two NBA Finals teams. The Stanford product has averaged 3.6 points and 3.8 rebounds in 713 career games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Los Angeles, CA (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Brooklyn Nets have signed free agent Jason Collins to a 10-day contract, and the 35-year-old center played against the Los Angeles Lakers on Sunday. Although he didn&#8217;t score, Collins made history 1:32 into the second quarter when he checked into the game and became the first openly gay active [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[160,159,158],"class_list":["post-15001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nba","tag-nets","tag-new-jersey","tag-new-jersey-nets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15001"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15013,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15001\/revisions\/15013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}