{"id":2388,"date":"2013-07-13T11:45:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-13T11:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.stub.com\/hq\/news\/sixers-pick-up-white-from-rockets\/"},"modified":"2013-07-13T11:45:00","modified_gmt":"2013-07-13T11:45:00","slug":"sixers-pick-up-white-from-rockets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/sixers-pick-up-white-from-rockets\/","title":{"rendered":"Sixers pick up White from Rockets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Philadelphia, PA (Sports Network) &#8211; The Philadelphia 76ers announced Saturday that they have acquired forward Royce White from the Houston Rockets.<\/p>\n<p>The Sixers also obtained the rights to 21-year-old center\/forward Furkan Aldemir and additional consideration from the Rockets in exchange for future draft considerations.<\/p>\n<p>White, the 16th overall pick in the 2012 NBA Draft out of Iowa State, has an anxiety disorder that kept him off the court last season. The 22-year-old spent much of the year suspended or playing for Rio Grand Valley of the NBA D- League. In 16 games for the Vipers, the 6-foot-8 White averaged 11.4 points, 5.7 rebounds and 3.3 assists in just under 26 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Aldemir has been playing professionally in his native Turkey. Selected by the Los Angeles Clippers with the 53rd pick in last year&#8217;s draft, Aldemir averaged 5.1 points and 6.9 rebounds while shooting 69 percent from the field in 40 Turkish Basketball League games this past season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Philadelphia, PA (Sports Network) &#8211; The Philadelphia 76ers announced Saturday that they have acquired forward Royce White from the Houston Rockets. The Sixers also obtained the rights to 21-year-old center\/forward Furkan Aldemir and additional consideration from the Rockets in exchange for future draft considerations. White, the 16th overall pick in the 2012 NBA Draft out [&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":[65,43,74,64,63,75],"class_list":["post-2388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nba","tag-76ers","tag-houston","tag-houston-rockets","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-76ers","tag-rockets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2388","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=2388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2388\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}