{"id":20814,"date":"2014-07-12T18:14:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-12T18:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/pau-gasol-says-hes-joining-bulls\/"},"modified":"2014-07-13T01:40:23","modified_gmt":"2014-07-13T01:40:23","slug":"pau-gasol-says-hes-joining-bulls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/pau-gasol-says-hes-joining-bulls\/","title":{"rendered":"Pau Gasol says he&#8217;s joining Bulls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Pau Gasol says he will play for the Chicago Bulls.<\/p>\n<p>The free-agent big man made the announcement on Twitter, saying his decision &#8220;hasn&#8217;t been easy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;After meditating it a lot I&#8217;ve chosen to play with the Chicago Bulls,&#8221; Gasol wrote. &#8220;Looking forward to this new chapter of my career.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Gasol, 34, spent the past six-plus seasons with Kobe Bryant and the Los Angeles Lakers, winning two NBA titles. He will join another former MVP in Chicago, point guard Derrick Rose.<\/p>\n<p>With Bryant out most of the season, Gasol averaged 17.4 points, 9.7 rebounds and 3.4 assists in 60 games in 2013-14, missing time because of a groin strain and vertigo.<\/p>\n<p>He has averaged 18.3 points, 9.2 rebounds and 3.3 assists in 13 NBA seasons with Memphis and LA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Pau Gasol says he will play for the Chicago Bulls. The free-agent big man made the announcement on Twitter, saying his decision &#8220;hasn&#8217;t been easy.&#8221; &#8220;After meditating it a lot I&#8217;ve chosen to play with the Chicago Bulls,&#8221; Gasol wrote. &#8220;Looking forward to this new chapter of my career.&#8221; Gasol, 34, spent the [&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":[31,30,29],"class_list":["post-20814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nba","tag-bulls","tag-chicago","tag-chicago-bulls"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20814","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=20814"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20827,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20814\/revisions\/20827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}