{"id":20775,"date":"2014-07-11T19:41:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-11T19:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/report-rockets-trade-lin-to-lakers\/"},"modified":"2014-07-11T19:41:00","modified_gmt":"2014-07-11T19:41:00","slug":"report-rockets-trade-lin-to-lakers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/report-rockets-trade-lin-to-lakers\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Rockets trade Lin to Lakers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Houston Rockets have traded point guard Jeremy Lin to the Los Angeles Lakers, according to reports.<\/p>\n<p>The Rockets made the deal to clear salary-cap space so they could sign free- agent big man Chris Bosh, according to Yahoo Sports.<\/p>\n<p>But Bosh ended up re-signing with the Miami Heat on a maximum deal, according to multiple reports that surfaced just hours after LeBron James announced he was leaving Miami to play for the Cleveland Cavaliers again.<\/p>\n<p>The Rockets also sent a 2015 first-round draft pick to the Lakers among other draft considerations, according to Yahoo Sports. The Rockets received cash and the rights to an overseas player.<\/p>\n<p>Lin, 25, averaged 13.0 points and 5.2 assists in two seasons for the Rockets.<\/p>\n<p>They signed him in 2012 on the heels of the Linsanity phenomenon in New York, when Lin became a brief and surprising star for the Knicks before suffering a meniscus tear in his knee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Houston Rockets have traded point guard Jeremy Lin to the Los Angeles Lakers, according to reports. The Rockets made the deal to clear salary-cap space so they could sign free- agent big man Chris Bosh, according to Yahoo Sports. But Bosh ended up re-signing with the Miami Heat on a maximum deal, [&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":[43,74,22,21,20,75],"class_list":["post-20775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nba","tag-houston","tag-houston-rockets","tag-lakers","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-lakers","tag-rockets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20775","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=20775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20775\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}