{"id":2936,"date":"2013-07-27T15:24:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-27T15:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.stub.com\/hq\/news\/pacers-acquire-scola-from-suns\/"},"modified":"2013-07-27T15:24:00","modified_gmt":"2013-07-27T15:24:00","slug":"pacers-acquire-scola-from-suns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/pacers-acquire-scola-from-suns\/","title":{"rendered":"Pacers acquire Scola from Suns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Indianapolis, IN (Sports Network) &#8211; The Indiana Pacers acquired forward\/center Luis Scola from the Phoenix Suns on Saturday in exchange for forward Gerald Green, center Miles Plumlee and a future first-round draft pick.<\/p>\n<p>Scola averaged 12.8 points, 6.6 rebounds and 2.2 assists in 82 games (67 starts) last season, his first with the Suns after spending five seasons in Houston.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m very, very excited to play for the Pacers,&#8221; said Scola. &#8220;They are one of the top three teams in the NBA with a good shot to win a championship. I think it&#8217;s a great team and this is a great opportunity. I can&#8217;t wait.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The 33-year-old Argentine has career averages of 14.2 points and 7.5 rebounds per contest over 468 games (410 starts) with Houston and Phoenix.<\/p>\n<p>Green was signed by the Pacers as a free agent in 2012 and played in 60 games while averaging 7.0 points per contest with a single-game high of 34.<\/p>\n<p>Plumlee was selected 26th overall by the Pacers in 2012 and averaged 0.9 points and 1.9 rebounds while appearing in 14 games last season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indianapolis, IN (Sports Network) &#8211; The Indiana Pacers acquired forward\/center Luis Scola from the Phoenix Suns on Saturday in exchange for forward Gerald Green, center Miles Plumlee and a future first-round draft pick. Scola averaged 12.8 points, 6.6 rebounds and 2.2 assists in 82 games (67 starts) last season, his first with the Suns after [&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":[92,91,93,105,104,106],"class_list":["post-2936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nba","tag-indiana","tag-indiana-pacers","tag-pacers","tag-phoenix","tag-phoenix-suns","tag-suns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2936","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=2936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2936\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}