{"id":20406,"date":"2014-07-02T23:57:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-02T23:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/lowry-opts-to-remain-with-raptors\/"},"modified":"2014-07-03T04:50:17","modified_gmt":"2014-07-03T04:50:17","slug":"lowry-opts-to-remain-with-raptors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/lowry-opts-to-remain-with-raptors\/","title":{"rendered":"Lowry opts to remain with Raptors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Kyle Lowry is staying with the Toronto Raptors.<\/p>\n<p>Lowry and the Raptors have agreed to a four-year contract extension worth $48 million, Yahoo Sports reported Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p>The free-agent guard told the website &#8220;Toronto is just the right place for me&#8221; and retweeted the report about his new deal.<\/p>\n<p>Lowry, 28, averaged 17.9 points and 7.4 assists in his second season with the Raptors, helping them reach the playoffs for the first time in six years.<\/p>\n<p>The new deal includes an early termination option allowing Lowry to become a free agent after the third season, Yahoo Sports reported.<\/p>\n<p>He was acquired in July 2012 in a trade with the Houston Rockets, who were one of the teams focusing on Lowry as a potential offseason addition, according to reports.<\/p>\n<p>Lowry has averaged 11.7 points and 5.4 assists in 506 NBA games for Memphis, Houston and Toronto.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Kyle Lowry is staying with the Toronto Raptors. Lowry and the Raptors have agreed to a four-year contract extension worth $48 million, Yahoo Sports reported Wednesday night. The free-agent guard told the website &#8220;Toronto is just the right place for me&#8221; and retweeted the report about his new deal. Lowry, 28, averaged 17.9 [&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":[169,115,168],"class_list":["post-20406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nba","tag-raptors","tag-toronto","tag-toronto-raptors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20406","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=20406"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20409,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20406\/revisions\/20409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}