{"id":20378,"date":"2014-07-02T15:46:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-02T15:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/report-ben-gordon-signs-with-magic\/"},"modified":"2014-07-02T15:46:00","modified_gmt":"2014-07-02T15:46:00","slug":"report-ben-gordon-signs-with-magic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/report-ben-gordon-signs-with-magic\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Ben Gordon signs with Magic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Orlando Magic have agreed to terms with veteran shooting guard Ben Gordon on a two-year contract, Yahoo! Sports reported Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>According to the report, only the first year of the $9 million deal is guaranteed, with the Magic holding an option for the 2015-16 season.<\/p>\n<p>The move cannot be officially announced until July 10, when the NBA&#8217;s moratorium on free agent signings is lifted.<\/p>\n<p>Gordon is coming off a 2013-14 in which he averaged a career-low 5.2 points and was waived by the Charlotte Bobcats in March after playing in just 19 games.<\/p>\n<p>The 31-year-old owns a career 40.2 percent success rate from 3-point range, however, and the Magic recently traded their best perimeter shooter, Arron Afflalo, to Denver.<\/p>\n<p>Gordon, the NBA&#8217;s 2004-05 Sixth Man of the Year, has averaged 15.6 points per game over 10 seasons with Chicago, Detroit and Charlotte.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Orlando Magic have agreed to terms with veteran shooting guard Ben Gordon on a two-year contract, Yahoo! Sports reported Wednesday. According to the report, only the first year of the $9 million deal is guaranteed, with the Magic holding an option for the 2015-16 season. The move cannot be officially announced until [&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":[28,27,26],"class_list":["post-20378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nba","tag-magic","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-magic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20378","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=20378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20378\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}