{"id":29576,"date":"2015-02-13T18:43:00","date_gmt":"2015-02-13T18:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/lebron-james-named-vp-of-players-association\/"},"modified":"2015-02-13T18:43:00","modified_gmt":"2015-02-13T18:43:00","slug":"lebron-james-named-vp-of-players-association","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/lebron-james-named-vp-of-players-association\/","title":{"rendered":"LeBron James named VP of Players Association"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New York, NY (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; LeBron James has been elected the first vice president of the NBA Players Association.<\/p>\n<p>James will serve under president Chris Paul, who has been lobbying for the four-time MVP to take a leadership position on the NBAPA&#8217;s executive committee. A vote was held during Friday&#8217;s union meeting in New York, and James, equally popular among his peers as he is nationally, was elected unanimously.<\/p>\n<p>James has never held a formal position with the NBAPA, but he has been involved in previous negotiations, even sitting in on meetings with the league during the 2011 lockout.<\/p>\n<p>The current collective bargaining agreement between the NBA and the NBAPA doesn&#8217;t expire until after the 2020-21 season, but both sides have the opportunity to opt out in the summer of 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York, NY (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; LeBron James has been elected the first vice president of the NBA Players Association. James will serve under president Chris Paul, who has been lobbying for the four-time MVP to take a leadership position on the NBAPA&#8217;s executive committee. A vote was held during Friday&#8217;s union meeting in New York, [&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":[],"class_list":["post-29576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29576","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=29576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29576\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}