{"id":20928,"date":"2014-07-15T18:16:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-15T18:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/bulls-use-amnesty-clause-on-boozer\/"},"modified":"2014-07-15T18:16:00","modified_gmt":"2014-07-15T18:16:00","slug":"bulls-use-amnesty-clause-on-boozer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/bulls-use-amnesty-clause-on-boozer\/","title":{"rendered":"Bulls use amnesty clause on Boozer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chicago, IL (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Chicago Bulls cut forward Carlos Boozer on Tuesday, using the amnesty clause on the veteran forward to clear salary cap space.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Carlos epitomized professionalism in everything he did for the Bulls both on the court, and in the community, during his time here in Chicago,&#8221; Bulls general manager Gar Forman said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Over the last four seasons, Carlos&#8217; productivity helped elevate our team to another level. I have nothing but respect for Carlos, and certainly wish him the best as he moves forward.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The move takes Boozer&#8217;s reported $16.8 million salary off Chicago&#8217;s books, giving the Bulls room to sign free agents and freeing other teams to bid on his services.<\/p>\n<p>Free-agent big man Pau Gasol announced over the weekend he was signing with the Bulls, and the team has reportedly reached agreements with guard Kirk Hinrich and former first-round draft pick Nikola Mirotic, who has been playing in Spain.<\/p>\n<p>Boozer, 32, played the past four seasons with the Bulls, averaging 15.5 points and 9.0 rebounds in 280 games. The 12-year NBA veteran holds career averages of 16.6 points and 9.8 boards over 790 games.<\/p>\n<p>The Bulls also announced they have waived forward Lou Amundson and guards Ronnie Brewer and Mike James.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chicago, IL (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Chicago Bulls cut forward Carlos Boozer on Tuesday, using the amnesty clause on the veteran forward to clear salary cap space. &#8220;Carlos epitomized professionalism in everything he did for the Bulls both on the court, and in the community, during his time here in Chicago,&#8221; Bulls general manager Gar Forman [&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-20928","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\/20928","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=20928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20928\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}