{"id":15407,"date":"2014-03-05T10:30:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-05T10:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/collins-gets-second-10-day-deal-with-nets\/"},"modified":"2014-03-05T10:30:00","modified_gmt":"2014-03-05T10:30:00","slug":"collins-gets-second-10-day-deal-with-nets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/collins-gets-second-10-day-deal-with-nets\/","title":{"rendered":"Collins gets second 10-day deal with Nets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brooklyn, NY (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Brooklyn Nets have signed center Jason Collins to a second 10-day contract.<\/p>\n<p>Collins joined the Nets late last month and became the first openly gay active player in one of North America&#8217;s four major team sports when he took the floor for a Feb. 23 game against the Los Angeles Lakers.<\/p>\n<p>The 35-year-old veteran revealed his sexuality nearly 10 months ago in an article he co-wrote for Sports Illustrated.<\/p>\n<p>Collins has appeared in five games this season and has compiled three points with five rebounds in 36 minutes.<\/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 3.7 rebounds in 718 career games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brooklyn, NY (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Brooklyn Nets have signed center Jason Collins to a second 10-day contract. Collins joined the Nets late last month and became the first openly gay active player in one of North America&#8217;s four major team sports when he took the floor for a Feb. 23 game against the Los Angeles [&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-15407","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\/15407","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=15407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15407\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}