{"id":787,"date":"2013-06-23T19:09:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-23T19:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.stub.com\/hq\/news\/report-clippers-celtics-reach-deal-for-rivers\/"},"modified":"2013-06-23T19:09:00","modified_gmt":"2013-06-23T19:09:00","slug":"report-clippers-celtics-reach-deal-for-rivers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/report-clippers-celtics-reach-deal-for-rivers\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Clippers, Celtics reach deal for Rivers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Sports Network) &#8211; The Doc Rivers-to-Clippers saga appears to have been rekindled, with a deal reportedly now in place following days of negotiating.<\/p>\n<p>According to a report by Yahoo!Sports, Los Angeles reached an agreement in principle on Sunday to send an unprotected 2015 first-round draft pick to the Boston Celtics for the rights to hire Rivers as its head coach.<\/p>\n<p>The report stated Rivers has agreed to a three-year, $21 million contract with the Clippers. The NBA still needs to approve the deal.<\/p>\n<p>Talks on a proposed trade between the clubs that had also involved Kevin Garnett going to the Clippers had broken down earlier in the week.<\/p>\n<p>Rivers, 51, has served as Boston&#8217;s head coach since 2004 and guided the storied franchise to the 2008 NBA title.<\/p>\n<p>By bringing in Rivers, the Clippers are hoping to entice star free-agent guard Chris Paul to sign a contract extension.<\/p>\n<p>Los Angeles is trying to fill the coaching vacancy created when Vinny Del Negro was not offered a new contract after three seasons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Sports Network) &#8211; The Doc Rivers-to-Clippers saga appears to have been rekindled, with a deal reportedly now in place following days of negotiating. According to a report by Yahoo!Sports, Los Angeles reached an agreement in principle on Sunday to send an unprotected 2015 first-round draft pick to the Boston Celtics for the rights to hire [&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":[177,176,178,38,21,37],"class_list":["post-787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nba","tag-boston","tag-boston-celtics","tag-celtics","tag-clippers","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-clippers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787","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=787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}