{"id":20781,"date":"2014-07-11T20:38:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-11T20:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/knicks-waive-odom-re-sign-cole-aldrich\/"},"modified":"2014-07-11T20:38:00","modified_gmt":"2014-07-11T20:38:00","slug":"knicks-waive-odom-re-sign-cole-aldrich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/knicks-waive-odom-re-sign-cole-aldrich\/","title":{"rendered":"Knicks waive Odom, re-sign Cole Aldrich"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New York, NY (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The New York Knicks waived forward Lamar Odom on Friday and re-signed center Cole Aldrich.<\/p>\n<p>Odom, 34, was signed in April but never appeared in a game for the Knicks. The 14-year NBA veteran hasn&#8217;t played in an NBA game since the 2012-13 season.<\/p>\n<p>Knicks president Phil Jackson, who coached Odom for several seasons while with the Lakers, said in a statement Odom &#8220;was unable to uphold the standards to return as an NBA player&#8221; and said the move was necessary to free up a roster spot.<\/p>\n<p>Aldrich, 25, averaged 2.0 points and 2.8 rebounds over 46 games in his first season with the Knicks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York, NY (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The New York Knicks waived forward Lamar Odom on Friday and re-signed center Cole Aldrich. Odom, 34, was signed in April but never appeared in a game for the Knicks. The 14-year NBA veteran hasn&#8217;t played in an NBA game since the 2012-13 season. Knicks president Phil Jackson, who coached [&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":[70,59,69],"class_list":["post-20781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nba","tag-knicks","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-knicks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20781","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=20781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20781\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}