{"id":2292,"date":"2013-07-11T13:16:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-11T13:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.stub.com\/hq\/news\/mavs-sign-israeli-guard-mekel\/"},"modified":"2013-07-11T13:16:00","modified_gmt":"2013-07-11T13:16:00","slug":"mavs-sign-israeli-guard-mekel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/mavs-sign-israeli-guard-mekel\/","title":{"rendered":"Mavs sign Israeli guard Mekel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dallas, TX (Sports Network) &#8211; The Dallas Mavericks signed point guard Gal Mekel on Thursday, according to the team&#8217;s Twitter feed.<\/p>\n<p>Mekel played two seasons at Wichita State (2006-08) before leaving school early to play professionally in Europe.<\/p>\n<p>In 30 games last season with Maccabi Haifa, he averaged 13.3 points and 5.4 assists.<\/p>\n<p>Mekel is just the second Israeli player in NBA history. Forward Omri Casspi was the first Israeli-born player in the NBA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dallas, TX (Sports Network) &#8211; The Dallas Mavericks signed point guard Gal Mekel on Thursday, according to the team&#8217;s Twitter feed. Mekel played two seasons at Wichita State (2006-08) before leaving school early to play professionally in Europe. In 30 games last season with Maccabi Haifa, he averaged 13.3 points and 5.4 assists. Mekel is [&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":[149,251,252],"class_list":["post-2292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nba","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-mavericks","tag-mavericks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2292","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=2292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2292\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}