{"id":150674,"date":"2018-02-01T22:32:02","date_gmt":"2018-02-02T03:32:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=150674"},"modified":"2018-02-01T22:32:02","modified_gmt":"2018-02-02T03:32:02","slug":"pelicans-acquire-mirotic-from-bulls-for-3-players-and-pick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/02\/01\/pelicans-acquire-mirotic-from-bulls-for-3-players-and-pick\/","title":{"rendered":"Pelicans acquire Mirotic from Bulls for 3 players and pick"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_150692\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-150692\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Nikola-Miroti\u0107.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-150692\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Nikola-Miroti\u0107.jpg\" alt=\"FILE: Nikola Miroti\u0107 (Photo by Rachael from Indiana - Nikola Mirotic, CC BY-SA 2.0)\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Nikola-Miroti\u0107.jpg 800w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Nikola-Miroti\u0107-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Nikola-Miroti\u0107-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-150692\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE: Nikola Miroti\u0107 (<a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=40404769\">Photo by Rachael from Indiana &#8211; Nikola Mirotic, CC BY-SA 2.0<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>NEW ORLEANS \u2014 The New Orleans Pelicans have acquired forward Nikola Mirotic and a second-round draft pick from the Chicago Bulls for centre Omer Asik, guards Jameer Nelson and Tony Allen and a 2018 first-round pick.<\/p>\n<p>The trade, announced by both teams late Thursday afternoon, comes less than a week after New Orleans lost All-Star DeMarcus Cousins for the season to a left Achilles tear and with the Pelicans still in the playoff picture.<\/p>\n<p>Mirotic has averaged 16.8 points and 6.4 rebounds per game since missing the first 23 games this season with two broken bones in his face stemming from a fight in practice with Bobby Portis.<\/p>\n<p>Nelson has averaged 5.1 points and 3.6 assists in 43 games for New Orleans this season. Allen averaged 4.7 points before a broken leg sidelined him for 22 games. He returned to the active roster this week. Asik has averaged 1.3 points and 2.6 rebounds in 14 games this season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW ORLEANS \u2014 The New Orleans Pelicans have acquired forward Nikola Mirotic and a second-round draft pick from the Chicago &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":150692,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[13257,43652,40604],"class_list":["post-150674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-chicago-bulls","tag-new-orleans-pelicans","tag-nikola-mirotic","mauthors-brett-martel","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150674\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}