{"id":22859,"date":"2014-08-30T17:36:00","date_gmt":"2014-08-30T17:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/usa-beats-finland-by-59-in-fiba-opener\/"},"modified":"2014-08-30T17:36:00","modified_gmt":"2014-08-30T17:36:00","slug":"usa-beats-finland-by-59-in-fiba-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/usa-beats-finland-by-59-in-fiba-opener\/","title":{"rendered":"USA beats Finland by 59 in FIBA opener"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bilbao, Spain (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Klay Thompson scored a game-high 18 points and the United States dominated Finland from start to finish in a 114-55 rout in its FIBA World Cup opener.<\/p>\n<p>A 29-2 differential in the second quarter summed up the lopsided affair. Finland missed all 17 shots it attempted in the frame while the Americans made all but four of their 17.<\/p>\n<p>Anthony Davis chimed in with 17 points, while Derrick Rose and Rudy Gay netted 12 and 10 points, respectively, for the U.S., which is back in action Sunday against Turkey.<\/p>\n<p>Shawn Huff and Petteri Koponen each scored 12 points for the overmatched Fins, who were invited to the tournament as a wild card. Cleveland Cavaliers forward Erik Murphy, Finland&#8217;s lone NBA player, scored 10 points with a team-high seven rebounds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bilbao, Spain (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Klay Thompson scored a game-high 18 points and the United States dominated Finland from start to finish in a 114-55 rout in its FIBA World Cup opener. A 29-2 differential in the second quarter summed up the lopsided affair. Finland missed all 17 shots it attempted in the frame while 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":[],"class_list":["post-22859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22859","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=22859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22859\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}