{"id":1954,"date":"2013-07-04T16:53:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-04T16:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.stub.com\/hq\/news\/cavaliers-to-sign-f-clark\/"},"modified":"2013-07-04T16:53:00","modified_gmt":"2013-07-04T16:53:00","slug":"cavaliers-to-sign-f-clark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/cavaliers-to-sign-f-clark\/","title":{"rendered":"Cavaliers to sign F Clark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Los Angeles, CA (Sports Network) &#8211; The Cleveland Cavaliers and free-agent forward Earl Clark have agreed to terms on a two-year, $9 million contract, the Los Angeles Daily News reported Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Clark comes to the Cavs off a solid 2012-13 season with the Los Angeles Lakers in which the 25-year-old posted career-best averages of 7.3 points and 5.5 rebounds while starting 36 of his 59 regular-season games. The former first- round pick was acquired by the Lakers from the Orlando Magic as part of last August&#8217;s blockbuster trade that also sent All-Star center Dwight Howard to Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p>The Lakers had reportedly been interested in retaining Clark, but the cap- strapped franchise wasn&#8217;t able to match the $4.5 million annual salary he&#8217;ll receive to join recent No. 1 overall pick Anthony Bennett in Cleveland.<\/p>\n<p>Clark, who spent the first two seasons of his five-year career with Phoenix, has averaged 4.3 points, 3.1 rebounds and 14 minutes over 197 NBA games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Los Angeles, CA (Sports Network) &#8211; The Cleveland Cavaliers and free-agent forward Earl Clark have agreed to terms on a two-year, $9 million contract, the Los Angeles Daily News reported Thursday. Clark comes to the Cavs off a solid 2012-13 season with the Los Angeles Lakers in which the 25-year-old posted career-best averages of 7.3 [&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":[124,54,123],"class_list":["post-1954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nba","tag-cavaliers","tag-cleveland","tag-cleveland-cavaliers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1954","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=1954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1954\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}