{"id":20725,"date":"2014-07-11T10:01:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-11T10:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/celtics-sign-picks-smart-young\/"},"modified":"2014-07-11T10:01:00","modified_gmt":"2014-07-11T10:01:00","slug":"celtics-sign-picks-smart-young","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/celtics-sign-picks-smart-young\/","title":{"rendered":"Celtics sign picks Smart, Young"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Boston, MA (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Boston Celtics have signed their 2014 first-round draft picks, Marcus Smart and James Young.<\/p>\n<p>Smart was selected with the sixth overall pick in June. The Oklahoma State guard was a two-time All-Big 12 First-Team selection and finished his two-year collegiate career with 189 steals, the second-most in school history. He averaged 18.0 points with 4.8 assists last season.<\/p>\n<p>Young, selected with the 17th overall choice, helped Kentucky finish as the NCAA Tournament runner-up this past spring. The 6-foot-6 swingman scored a team-high 20 points in the national championship game loss to Connecticut and was the second-leading scorer for the Wildcats last season with 14.3 points.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boston, MA (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Boston Celtics have signed their 2014 first-round draft picks, Marcus Smart and James Young. Smart was selected with the sixth overall pick in June. The Oklahoma State guard was a two-time All-Big 12 First-Team selection and finished his two-year collegiate career with 189 steals, the second-most in school history. He [&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":[177,176,178],"class_list":["post-20725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nba","tag-boston","tag-boston-celtics","tag-celtics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20725","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=20725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20725\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}