{"id":20273,"date":"2014-07-01T02:25:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-01T02:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/cavs-to-sign-irving-to-max-deal\/"},"modified":"2014-07-01T02:25:00","modified_gmt":"2014-07-01T02:25:00","slug":"cavs-to-sign-irving-to-max-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/cavs-to-sign-irving-to-max-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Cavs to sign Irving to max deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cleveland, OH (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Cleveland Cavaliers plan to sign All- Star Game MVP Kyrie Irving to a five-year maximum salary contract extension when the free-agency signing period officially begins July 10.<\/p>\n<p>The negotiating period started at 12:01 a.m. ET on July 1. Shortly after, Cavaliers owner Dan Gilbert sent a message via Twitter of his intentions.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Looking forward to the next 6 years of @KyrieIrving in CLE. Just shook hands &amp; intend to sign on the 10th. Can&#8217;t be more excited about @cavs,&#8221; Gilbert wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Teams may strike verbal deals with players, but the league-wide moratorium on signings will not be lifted until July 10.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m here for the long haul Cleveland!!! and I&#8217;m ecstatic!! Super excited and blessed to be here and a part of something special,&#8221; Irving said via Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>The first overall pick of the 2011 draft, Irving is expected to sign a deal worth $90 million over five seasons, which would keep him with the Cavaliers through the 2019-20 season. He was already signed through the 2014-15 season at just over $7 million.<\/p>\n<p>Irving averaged 20.8 points, 6.1 assists and 3.6 rebounds per game last season.<\/p>\n<p>Signing him gives the Cavaliers a solid duo of Irving and Andrew Wiggins, who was the top overall pick from this year&#8217;s draft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cleveland, OH (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Cleveland Cavaliers plan to sign All- Star Game MVP Kyrie Irving to a five-year maximum salary contract extension when the free-agency signing period officially begins July 10. The negotiating period started at 12:01 a.m. ET on July 1. Shortly after, Cavaliers owner Dan Gilbert sent a message via Twitter of [&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-20273","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\/20273","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=20273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20273\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}