{"id":2360,"date":"2013-07-12T17:07:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-12T17:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.stub.com\/hq\/news\/kirilenko-joins-the-nets\/"},"modified":"2013-07-12T17:07:00","modified_gmt":"2013-07-12T17:07:00","slug":"kirilenko-joins-the-nets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/kirilenko-joins-the-nets\/","title":{"rendered":"Kirilenko joins the Nets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brooklyn, NY (Sports Network) &#8211; The Brooklyn Nets made the Andrei Kirilenko signing official on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>No terms were announced, but multiple reports indicated the 32-year-old Russian forward signed a two-year deal worth the mini mid-level exception, with the second year a player option.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are very pleased to add Andrei to our roster,&#8221; said Nets general manager Billy King said in a statement. &#8220;He is a proven NBA veteran with a unique skill set, and his addition provides our team with increased frontcourt flexibility.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Kirilenko was due to make $10 million with the Minnesota Timberwolves next season, but opted out in favor of a multi-year contract.<\/p>\n<p>Selected by Utah with the 24th overall pick in the 1999 NBA Draft, the 6- foot-9 Kirilenko played for the Jazz from 2001-2011 before playing one year for the Euroleague&#8217;s CSKA Moscow. He returned to the NBA this past season, averaging 12.4 points, 5.7 rebounds and 2.8 assists in 64 games with the Timberwolves.<\/p>\n<p>For his career, Kirilenko has averaged 12.4 points, 5.6 rebounds, 2.8 assists and 1.9 blocks in 745 games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brooklyn, NY (Sports Network) &#8211; The Brooklyn Nets made the Andrei Kirilenko signing official on Friday. No terms were announced, but multiple reports indicated the 32-year-old Russian forward signed a two-year deal worth the mini mid-level exception, with the second year a player option. &#8220;We are very pleased to add Andrei to our roster,&#8221; said [&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":[160,159,158],"class_list":["post-2360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nba","tag-nets","tag-new-jersey","tag-new-jersey-nets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2360","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=2360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2360\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}