{"id":20979,"date":"2014-07-16T21:31:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-16T21:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/bird-latta-named-replacements-for-wnba-all-star-game\/"},"modified":"2014-07-16T21:31:00","modified_gmt":"2014-07-16T21:31:00","slug":"bird-latta-named-replacements-for-wnba-all-star-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/bird-latta-named-replacements-for-wnba-all-star-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Bird, Latta named replacements for WNBA All-Star Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New York, NY (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Seattle Storm guard Sue Bird and Washington Mystics guard Ivory Latta were named replacements for the 2014 Boost Mobile WNBA All-Star Game.<\/p>\n<p>Bird will join the Western Conference roster and replace Minnesota&#8217;s Seimone Augustus, who has missed the last seven games due to left knee bursitis.<\/p>\n<p>The 33-year-old Bird, who will make her eighth All-Star appearance, is averaging 10.6 points and 4.3 assists in 24 games this season.<\/p>\n<p>Latta will represent the Eastern Conference, replacing Chicago&#8217;s Elena Delle Donne, who has missed 12 of the last 13 games due to effects from Lyme disease.<\/p>\n<p>Latta is an All-Star for the second time in her career after participating in last year&#8217;s event as a reserve. The North Carolina product leads the Mystics with 11.0 points per game this season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York, NY (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Seattle Storm guard Sue Bird and Washington Mystics guard Ivory Latta were named replacements for the 2014 Boost Mobile WNBA All-Star Game. Bird will join the Western Conference roster and replace Minnesota&#8217;s Seimone Augustus, who has missed the last seven games due to left knee bursitis. The 33-year-old Bird, who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[233],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20979","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=20979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20979\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}