{"id":3358,"date":"2013-08-08T12:20:00","date_gmt":"2013-08-08T12:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.stub.com\/hq\/news\/trail-blazers-sign-mo-williams\/"},"modified":"2013-08-08T12:20:00","modified_gmt":"2013-08-08T12:20:00","slug":"trail-blazers-sign-mo-williams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/trail-blazers-sign-mo-williams\/","title":{"rendered":"Trail Blazers sign Mo Williams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Portland, OR (Sports Network) &#8211; The Portland Trail Blazers officially signed guard Mo Williams on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Yahoo! Sports reported on Wednesday that the two-year contract is worth $5.6 million, with the second year being a player option.<\/p>\n<p>Williams, 30, averaged 12.9 points and 6.2 assists in 46 games for the Jazz last season. He missed two months of the season because of thumb surgery.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m very exited to be back with Mo again,&#8221; said Trail Blazers coach Terry Stotts. &#8220;He adds versatility, scoring and veteran leadership to the team.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Stotts coached Williams in Milwaukee during the 2006 and 2007 seasons.<\/p>\n<p>The 6-foot-1 guard has averaged 13.8 points and 5.0 assists per contest over 10 seasons with the Jazz (2003-04, 2012-13), Bucks (2004-08), Cavaliers (2008-11) and Clippers (2011-12). He was an All-Star in 2009.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Portland, OR (Sports Network) &#8211; The Portland Trail Blazers officially signed guard Mo Williams on Thursday. Yahoo! Sports reported on Wednesday that the two-year contract is worth $5.6 million, with the second year being a player option. Williams, 30, averaged 12.9 points and 6.2 assists in 46 games for the Jazz last season. He missed [&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":[237,236,238],"class_list":["post-3358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nba","tag-portland","tag-portland-trail-blazers","tag-trail-blazers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3358","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=3358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3358\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}