{"id":6469,"date":"2013-10-16T16:37:00","date_gmt":"2013-10-16T16:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.stub.com\/hq\/news\/pelicans-exercise-third-year-options-on-davis-rivers\/"},"modified":"2013-10-16T16:37:00","modified_gmt":"2013-10-16T16:37:00","slug":"pelicans-exercise-third-year-options-on-davis-rivers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/pelicans-exercise-third-year-options-on-davis-rivers\/","title":{"rendered":"Pelicans exercise third-year options on Davis, Rivers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Orleans, LA (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The New Orleans Pelicans have exercised the third-year options on 2012 lottery picks Anthony Davis and Austin Rivers.<\/p>\n<p>Davis, picked No. 1 overall in last year&#8217;s draft, averaged 13.5 points, 8.2 rebounds and 1.8 blocks per game as a rookie, starting 60 of 64 games he appeared in. The former Kentucky Wildcat finished second in Rookie of the Year voting behind Portland&#8217;s Damian Lillard.<\/p>\n<p>Davis led all rookies in rebounds per game, blocks per game, steals per game and double-doubles.<\/p>\n<p>Rivers, son of Clippers head coach Doc Rivers, was selected 10th overall and averaged 6.2 points, 2.1 assists and 1.8 boards in 61 contests during his rookie campaign.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Orleans, LA (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The New Orleans Pelicans have exercised the third-year options on 2012 lottery picks Anthony Davis and Austin Rivers. Davis, picked No. 1 overall in last year&#8217;s draft, averaged 13.5 points, 8.2 rebounds and 1.8 blocks per game as a rookie, starting 60 of 64 games he appeared in. The former [&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":[147,146,145],"class_list":["post-6469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nba","tag-hornets","tag-new-orleans","tag-new-orleans-hornets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6469","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=6469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6469\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}