{"id":2611,"date":"2013-07-19T15:35:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-19T15:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.stub.com\/hq\/news\/pistons-get-pope-under-contract\/"},"modified":"2013-07-19T15:35:00","modified_gmt":"2013-07-19T15:35:00","slug":"pistons-get-pope-under-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/pistons-get-pope-under-contract\/","title":{"rendered":"Pistons get Pope under contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Auburn Hills, MI (Sports Network) &#8211; The Detroit Pistons announced Friday that the team has officially signed rookie guard Kentavious Caldwell-Pope, the eighth overall pick in last month&#8217;s NBA Draft.<\/p>\n<p>Caldwell-Pope, the 2012-13 Southeastern Conference Player of the Year, followed up a standout junior season at the University of Georgia with a solid performance at the recent Orlando Summer League. The 6-foot-5 sharpshooter averaged 13.8 points, 3.8 rebounds, 1.8 steals and 1.4 assists at the event.<\/p>\n<p>The 20-year-old finished second in the SEC in scoring (18.5 ppg) and 3-point field goals made (84) with the Bulldogs this past season, while averaging 7.1 rebounds and 2.0 steals as well over 32 games.<\/p>\n<p>Detroit also signed forward Tony Mitchell, the team&#8217;s first of two second- round draft selections. The North Texas product averaged 7.8 points and 6.8 rebounds in Summer League play.<\/p>\n<p>Mitchell, the 37th overall choice, recorded 13.0 points, 8.5 rebounds and 2.7 blocks over 32 contests with the Mean Green in 2012-13.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Auburn Hills, MI (Sports Network) &#8211; The Detroit Pistons announced Friday that the team has officially signed rookie guard Kentavious Caldwell-Pope, the eighth overall pick in last month&#8217;s NBA Draft. Caldwell-Pope, the 2012-13 Southeastern Conference Player of the Year, followed up a standout junior season at the University of Georgia with a solid performance at [&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":[51,140,141],"class_list":["post-2611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nba","tag-detroit","tag-detroit-pistons","tag-pistons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2611","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=2611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2611\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}