{"id":4307,"date":"2013-08-29T18:57:00","date_gmt":"2013-08-29T18:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.stub.com\/hq\/news\/suns-sign-c-len\/"},"modified":"2013-08-29T18:57:00","modified_gmt":"2013-08-29T18:57:00","slug":"suns-sign-c-len","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/suns-sign-c-len\/","title":{"rendered":"Suns sign C Len"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Phoenix, AZ (Sports Network) &#8211; The Phoenix Suns signed center Alex Len on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Len became the highest-drafted Ukrainian in NBA history after being selected with the fifth overall pick in this June&#8217;s NBA Draft.<\/p>\n<p>Last season, the 7-foot-1 center averaged 11.9 points, 7.8 rebounds and 2.1 blocks in 38 games for Maryland, earning All-ACC Defensive Team honors and an All-ACC Honorable mention.<\/p>\n<p>In two seasons with the Terrapins, Len averaged 9.7 points, 7.0 rebounds and 2.1 blocks per contest.<\/p>\n<p>Len also played for the Ukrainian national team in the 2010 FIBA Europe Under-18 Championship, averaging 16.0 points, 11.4 rebounds and 4.3 blocks in nine games.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, the Suns traded forward Caron Butler to the Milwaukee Bucks in exchange for guard Ish Smith and center Viacheslav Kravtsov.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Phoenix, AZ (Sports Network) &#8211; The Phoenix Suns signed center Alex Len on Thursday. Len became the highest-drafted Ukrainian in NBA history after being selected with the fifth overall pick in this June&#8217;s NBA Draft. Last season, the 7-foot-1 center averaged 11.9 points, 7.8 rebounds and 2.1 blocks in 38 games for Maryland, earning All-ACC [&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":[105,104,106],"class_list":["post-4307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nba","tag-phoenix","tag-phoenix-suns","tag-suns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4307","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=4307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4307\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}