{"id":2332,"date":"2013-07-11T20:28:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-11T20:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.stub.com\/hq\/news\/lakers-sign-fg-young\/"},"modified":"2013-07-11T20:28:00","modified_gmt":"2013-07-11T20:28:00","slug":"lakers-sign-fg-young","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/lakers-sign-fg-young\/","title":{"rendered":"Lakers sign F\/G Young"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>El Segundo, CA (Sports Network) &#8211; The Los Angeles Lakers signed free agent forward\/guard Nick Young on Thursday. Per team policy, terms of the deal were not released.<\/p>\n<p>Young, a six-year pro, averaged 10.6 points per game for the Philadelphia Sixers last season, but shot just 41.3 percent.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At 6-foot-7, Nick&#8217;s size, ability to create his own shot and athleticism make him a versatile player who will give our lineup multiple looks on the floor. He&#8217;s an exciting player, and we&#8217;re excited to have him on our roster,&#8221; Lakers general manager Mitch Kupchak said.<\/p>\n<p>Young has averaged 11.3 points over 416 career games with the Washington Wizards (2007-2012), Los Angeles Clippers (2012) and Sixers (2012-2013).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>El Segundo, CA (Sports Network) &#8211; The Los Angeles Lakers signed free agent forward\/guard Nick Young on Thursday. Per team policy, terms of the deal were not released. Young, a six-year pro, averaged 10.6 points per game for the Philadelphia Sixers last season, but shot just 41.3 percent. &#8220;At 6-foot-7, Nick&#8217;s size, ability to create [&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":[22,21,20],"class_list":["post-2332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nba","tag-lakers","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-lakers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2332","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=2332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2332\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}