{"id":23918,"date":"2014-09-24T18:53:00","date_gmt":"2014-09-24T18:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/reports-suns-bledsoe-agree-to-70m-deal\/"},"modified":"2014-09-24T18:53:00","modified_gmt":"2014-09-24T18:53:00","slug":"reports-suns-bledsoe-agree-to-70m-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/reports-suns-bledsoe-agree-to-70m-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Reports: Suns, Bledsoe agree to $70M deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Phoenix Suns and restricted free-agent guard Eric Bledsoe have reportedly settled their differences and agreed to a five-year, $70-million deal.<\/p>\n<p>The deal is a substantial increase over the reported four-year, $48 million that the Suns had offered Bledsoe at the start of free agency in July. Phoenix and Bledsoe renewed negotiations this week.<\/p>\n<p>The 24-year-old Bledsoe averaged 17.7 points, 5.5 assists and 4.7 rebounds in 43 games last season. He missed a majority of the season with a torn meniscus in his knee that required surgery.<\/p>\n<p>Bledsoe had planned to sign a one-year qualifying offer of $3.7 million with the Suns at the end of this week had a deal not been reached so he could be an unrestricted free agent next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Phoenix Suns and restricted free-agent guard Eric Bledsoe have reportedly settled their differences and agreed to a five-year, $70-million deal. The deal is a substantial increase over the reported four-year, $48 million that the Suns had offered Bledsoe at the start of free agency in July. Phoenix and Bledsoe renewed negotiations this [&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":[105,104,106],"class_list":["post-23918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nba","tag-phoenix","tag-phoenix-suns","tag-suns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23918","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=23918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23918\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}