{"id":6853,"date":"2013-10-24T20:18:00","date_gmt":"2013-10-24T20:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.stub.com\/hq\/news\/raptors-pick-up-options-on-valanciunas-ross\/"},"modified":"2013-10-24T20:18:00","modified_gmt":"2013-10-24T20:18:00","slug":"raptors-pick-up-options-on-valanciunas-ross","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/raptors-pick-up-options-on-valanciunas-ross\/","title":{"rendered":"Raptors pick up options on Valanciunas, Ross"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto, ON (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Toronto Raptors announced Thursday that the team has exercised contract options on center Jonas Valanciunas and guard Terrence Ross for the 2014-15 season.<\/p>\n<p>Valanciunas, the fifth overall selection of the 2011 NBA Draft, put together a solid rookie season in 2012-13 following a year playing in his native Lithuania. The 7-footer averaged 8.9 points, 6.0 rebounds and 1.3 blocks while starting 57-of-62 games to earn a spot on last season&#8217;s NBA All-Rookie Second Team.<\/p>\n<p>The 21-year-old built on his promising debut by being named the MVP of the 2013 Las Vegas Summer League by averaging 18.8 points and 10.0 rebounds over four games.<\/p>\n<p>Ross, taken eighth overall by the Raptors in the 2012 draft, averaged 6.4 points and 2.0 rebounds over 73 games last season. The highlight of the 22- year-old&#8217;s rookie year came during All-Star Weekend, when Ross won the 2013 Slam Dunk competition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto, ON (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Toronto Raptors announced Thursday that the team has exercised contract options on center Jonas Valanciunas and guard Terrence Ross for the 2014-15 season. Valanciunas, the fifth overall selection of the 2011 NBA Draft, put together a solid rookie season in 2012-13 following a year playing in his native Lithuania. The [&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":[169,115,168],"class_list":["post-6853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nba","tag-raptors","tag-toronto","tag-toronto-raptors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6853","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=6853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6853\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}