{"id":22679,"date":"2014-08-26T18:15:00","date_gmt":"2014-08-26T18:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/pelicans-sign-salmons\/"},"modified":"2014-08-26T18:15:00","modified_gmt":"2014-08-26T18:15:00","slug":"pelicans-sign-salmons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/pelicans-sign-salmons\/","title":{"rendered":"Pelicans sign Salmons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Orleans, LA (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The New Orleans Pelicans have signed veteran forward John Salmons, the team announced Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Salmons, who&#8217;ll be entering his 13th NBA season, averaged 5.2 points, 2.1 rebounds and 1.9 assists over 78 games between Toronto and Sacramento in 2013-14. The 34-year-old was acquired by the Raptors as part of last December&#8217;s trade that sent Rudy Gay to the Kings and also landed guard Greivis Vasquez and forward Patrick Patterson in Toronto.<\/p>\n<p>Toronto traded Salmons to Atlanta on June 29, with the Hawks buying out the remainder of his contract shortly after to clear salary cap space.<\/p>\n<p>Over 874 career games with five different teams (Philadelphia, Sacramento, Chicago, Milwaukee, Toronto), Salmons has averaged 9.4 points, 3.0 rebounds and 2.5 assists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Orleans, LA (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The New Orleans Pelicans have signed veteran forward John Salmons, the team announced Tuesday. Salmons, who&#8217;ll be entering his 13th NBA season, averaged 5.2 points, 2.1 rebounds and 1.9 assists over 78 games between Toronto and Sacramento in 2013-14. The 34-year-old was acquired by the Raptors as part of last [&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":[147,146,145],"class_list":["post-22679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nba","tag-hornets","tag-new-orleans","tag-new-orleans-hornets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22679","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=22679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22679\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}