{"id":5020,"date":"2013-09-13T22:30:00","date_gmt":"2013-09-13T22:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.stub.com\/hq\/news\/suns-sign-swingman-christmas\/"},"modified":"2013-09-13T22:30:00","modified_gmt":"2013-09-13T22:30:00","slug":"suns-sign-swingman-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/suns-sign-swingman-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"Suns sign swingman Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Phoenix, AZ (Sports Network) &#8211; The Phoenix Suns have signed free agent Dionte Christmas.<\/p>\n<p>Christmas, 26, spent the first four years of his professional career overseas after going undrafted in 2009. The 6&#8217;5 wing averaged 10.1 points and 2.7 rebounds per game off the bench for the Suns&#8217; Las Vegas Summer League squad this summer.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re excited to add Dionte to our roster,&#8221; said General Manager Ryan McDonough. &#8220;His scoring ability, leadership and toughness will help us this season.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Christmas spent last season with Montepaschi Siena of the Italian Serie-A, averaging 5.1 points in nine games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Phoenix, AZ (Sports Network) &#8211; The Phoenix Suns have signed free agent Dionte Christmas. Christmas, 26, spent the first four years of his professional career overseas after going undrafted in 2009. The 6&#8217;5 wing averaged 10.1 points and 2.7 rebounds per game off the bench for the Suns&#8217; Las Vegas Summer League squad this summer. [&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-5020","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\/5020","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=5020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5020\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}