{"id":20820,"date":"2014-07-12T19:28:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-12T19:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/kings-collison-finalize-deal\/"},"modified":"2014-07-12T19:28:00","modified_gmt":"2014-07-12T19:28:00","slug":"kings-collison-finalize-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/kings-collison-finalize-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Kings, Collison finalize deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sacramento, CA (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Sacramento Kings signed point guard Darren Collison to a multi-year contract on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but multiple reports during the league&#8217;s moratorium period had the deal at $16 million over three years.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Adding Darren provides veteran leadership in our backcourt,&#8221; said Kings general manager Pete D&#8217;Alessandro. &#8220;His speed and quickness will undoubtedly increase our pace and he plays sound defense every night. We&#8217;re excited to have him join the team.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Collison, 26, averaged 11.4 points and 3.7 assists in 80 games last season with the Clippers. It was his first and only season with Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p>In five seasons with the Clippers, Dallas, Indiana and New Orleans, Collison has career averages of 11.9 points and 4.9 assists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sacramento, CA (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Sacramento Kings signed point guard Darren Collison to a multi-year contract on Saturday. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but multiple reports during the league&#8217;s moratorium period had the deal at $16 million over three years. &#8220;Adding Darren provides veteran leadership in our backcourt,&#8221; said Kings general manager Pete [&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":[201,200,199],"class_list":["post-20820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nba","tag-kings","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-kings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20820","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=20820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20820\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}