{"id":30272,"date":"2015-03-04T15:25:00","date_gmt":"2015-03-04T15:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/ray-allen-to-sit-this-season-out\/"},"modified":"2015-03-04T15:25:00","modified_gmt":"2015-03-04T15:25:00","slug":"ray-allen-to-sit-this-season-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/ray-allen-to-sit-this-season-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Ray Allen to sit this season out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Arlington, VA (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Ray Allen announced Wednesday that he will not play in the NBA this season and will instead spend the next couple months contemplating his future.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Over the past several months, I have taken a lot of time to deliberate what is best for me,&#8221; Allen said in a statement released through his agent Jim Tanner. &#8220;I&#8217;ve ultimately decided that I will not play this NBA season. I&#8217;m going to take the remainder of this season, as well as the upcoming off- season, to reassess my situation, spend time with my family and determine if I will play in the 2015-16 season.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The 39-year-old guard had drawn strong interest from numerous teams. He averaged 9.6 points and shot 38 percent from 3-point range in 73 games for the Miami Heat last season.<\/p>\n<p>Allen holds the league&#8217;s all-time record for most 3-pointers made and has averaged 18.9 points per game during his 18-year career.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arlington, VA (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Ray Allen announced Wednesday that he will not play in the NBA this season and will instead spend the next couple months contemplating his future. &#8220;Over the past several months, I have taken a lot of time to deliberate what is best for me,&#8221; Allen said in a statement released through [&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-30272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30272","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=30272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30272\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}