{"id":3562,"date":"2013-08-14T11:57:00","date_gmt":"2013-08-14T11:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wizards-sign-al-harrington\/"},"modified":"2013-08-14T11:57:00","modified_gmt":"2013-08-14T11:57:00","slug":"wizards-sign-al-harrington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wizards-sign-al-harrington\/","title":{"rendered":"Wizards sign Al Harrington"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, DC (Sports Network) &#8211; The Washington Wizards signed veteran forward Al Harrington on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Per team policy, terms of the deal were not released.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Al&#8217;s all-around game and reputation as a leader make him a solid fit with our team,&#8221; Wizards president Ernie Grunfeld said. &#8220;He will give us additional depth and experience in the frontcourt, the ability to stretch defenses and another proven veteran in the locker room.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Harrington played in just 10 games with the Orlando Magic last year due to a staph infection following surgery to repair a torn meniscus in his right knee in April 2012. He was waived by Orlando earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p>The 33-year-old Harrington was dealt from Denver to Orlando in August 2012 as part of the four-team trade which sent Dwight Howard to the Los Angeles Lakers. In 2011-12, Harrington averaged 14.2 points and 6.1 rebounds in 64 games with the Nuggets.<\/p>\n<p>Harrington has averaged 13.7 points, 5.7 rebounds and 1.7 assists in 947 career games (445 starts) with the Pacers, Hawks, Warriors, Knicks, Nuggets and Magic.<\/p>\n<p>Originally selected by Indiana with the 25th overall pick in the 1998 NBA Draft, Harrington has also played in 48 career postseason games, averaging 8.0 points and 4.5 rebounds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, DC (Sports Network) &#8211; The Washington Wizards signed veteran forward Al Harrington on Wednesday. Per team policy, terms of the deal were not released. &#8220;Al&#8217;s all-around game and reputation as a leader make him a solid fit with our team,&#8221; Wizards president Ernie Grunfeld said. &#8220;He will give us additional depth and experience in [&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":[95,240,241],"class_list":["post-3562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nba","tag-washington","tag-washington-wizards","tag-wizards"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3562","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=3562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3562\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}