{"id":20776,"date":"2014-07-11T19:56:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-11T19:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/report-suns-acquire-thomas-from-kings\/"},"modified":"2014-07-11T19:56:00","modified_gmt":"2014-07-11T19:56:00","slug":"report-suns-acquire-thomas-from-kings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/report-suns-acquire-thomas-from-kings\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Suns acquire Thomas from Kings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Phoenix, AZ (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Phoenix Suns have reportedly acquired point guard Isaiah Thomas from the Sacramento Kings in a sign-and-trade deal.<\/p>\n<p>According to several media sources, including the Sacramento Bee, the Kings will receive a $7 million trade exception along with the draft rights to power forward Alex Oriakhi. He was a second-round selection of the Suns in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>The 25-year-old Thomas, who was a restricted free agent, averaged 20.3 points, 6.3 assists and 2.9 rebounds in 72 contests last season. He started 54 games.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;God is great!!! I&#8217;m excited for what the future holds here in Phoenix. Proud 2 be apart of the @Suns organization!,&#8221; Thomas said via Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas became expendable for the Kings when they reportedly agreed to a three- year, $16 million fully guaranteed deal with Darren Collision. That contract has yet to become official.<\/p>\n<p>Oriakhi played in France and Israel last season and then spent time in the NBA&#8217;s Development League where he averaged 7.2 points and 6.2 rebounds in 43 contests.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Phoenix, AZ (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Phoenix Suns have reportedly acquired point guard Isaiah Thomas from the Sacramento Kings in a sign-and-trade deal. According to several media sources, including the Sacramento Bee, the Kings will receive a $7 million trade exception along with the draft rights to power forward Alex Oriakhi. He was a second-round selection [&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":[201,105,104,200,199,106],"class_list":["post-20776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nba","tag-kings","tag-phoenix","tag-phoenix-suns","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-kings","tag-suns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20776","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=20776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20776\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}