{"id":2074,"date":"2013-07-06T18:54:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-06T18:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.stub.com\/hq\/news\/jazz-get-burke-under-contract\/"},"modified":"2013-07-06T18:54:00","modified_gmt":"2013-07-06T18:54:00","slug":"jazz-get-burke-under-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/jazz-get-burke-under-contract\/","title":{"rendered":"Jazz get Burke under contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Salt Lake City, UT (Sports Network) &#8211; The Utah Jazz officially signed 2013 Naismith Award winner Trey Burke on Saturday, one day before the start of the NBA&#8217;s Summer League in Orlando.<\/p>\n<p>The Jazz acquired Burke, who led Michigan to the title game of this year&#8217;s NCAA Tournament while claiming nearly every national player of the year honor during a sensational sophomore campaign with the Wolverines, in a draft-day trade with Minnesota after the Timberwolves took the young point guard with the ninth overall pick.<\/p>\n<p>Under the NBA&#8217;s rookie salary scale, the Jazz can pay Burke a maximum of $2.032 million during 2013-14 and will hold team options in the final two seasons of the four-year deal.<\/p>\n<p>Burke dished out a school-record 255 assists over 38 games with the Wolverines this past season, while averaging 18.6 points and 3.2 rebounds and shooting 38.4 percent from 3-point range.<\/p>\n<p>Utah also came to terms with its other 2013 first-round pick, French center Rudy Gobert, on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Salt Lake City, UT (Sports Network) &#8211; The Utah Jazz officially signed 2013 Naismith Award winner Trey Burke on Saturday, one day before the start of the NBA&#8217;s Summer League in Orlando. The Jazz acquired Burke, who led Michigan to the title game of this year&#8217;s NCAA Tournament while claiming nearly every national player 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":[230,229,228],"class_list":["post-2074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nba","tag-jazz","tag-utah","tag-utah-jazz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2074","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=2074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2074\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}