{"id":27680,"date":"2014-12-24T19:25:00","date_gmt":"2014-12-24T19:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/report-josh-smith-signing-with-rockets\/"},"modified":"2014-12-24T19:25:00","modified_gmt":"2014-12-24T19:25:00","slug":"report-josh-smith-signing-with-rockets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/report-josh-smith-signing-with-rockets\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Josh Smith signing with Rockets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Former Detroit Pistons forward Josh Smith said Wednesday that he will sign with the Houston Rockets, according to a report by the Houston Chronicle.<\/p>\n<p>The Pistons waived Smith on Monday, less than two years into a four-year, $54 million contract. According to the Chronicle, the Rockets are expected to announce the signing either Thursday or Friday, once they are able to clear a roster spot.<\/p>\n<p>Smith averaged 13.1 points and 7.2 rebounds this season for the 5-23 Pistons, who hold the league&#8217;s third-worst record.<\/p>\n<p>The 29-year-old will once again play with Dwight Howard, who is one of Smith&#8217;s closest friends and a former AAU teammate.<\/p>\n<p>The Pistons acquired Smith as a free agent after the 2012-13 season. During his time with Detroit, Smith averaged 15.5 points and 6.9 rebounds per game.<\/p>\n<p>For his career, Smith has averages for 15.4 points and 7.8 rebounds in 781 games with the Atlanta Hawks and Pistons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Former Detroit Pistons forward Josh Smith said Wednesday that he will sign with the Houston Rockets, according to a report by the Houston Chronicle. The Pistons waived Smith on Monday, less than two years into a four-year, $54 million contract. According to the Chronicle, the Rockets are expected to announce the signing either [&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":[43,74,75],"class_list":["post-27680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nba","tag-houston","tag-houston-rockets","tag-rockets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27680","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=27680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27680\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}