{"id":260219,"date":"2020-07-02T06:20:54","date_gmt":"2020-07-02T10:20:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=260219"},"modified":"2020-07-02T06:20:54","modified_gmt":"2020-07-02T10:20:54","slug":"nba-los-angeles-lakers-acquire-jr-smith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/07\/02\/nba-los-angeles-lakers-acquire-jr-smith\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA: Los Angeles Lakers acquire JR Smith"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>ANKARA<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 The Los Angeles Lakers signed US shooting guard JR Smith on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;OFFICIAL: Welcome to the squad, @TheRealJRSmith!,&#8221; the Western Conference franchise said on Twitter.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">OFFICIAL: Welcome to the squad, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheRealJRSmith?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@TheRealJRSmith<\/a>! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/EW7S7RLktc\">pic.twitter.com\/EW7S7RLktc<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Los Angeles Lakers (@Lakers) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Lakers\/status\/1278386709143539712?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 1, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>JR Smith, 34, played for the Cleveland Cavaliers in 2015-2019 and won the NBA title in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>He will be playing alongside superstar LeBron James at the Lakers. The two were teammates at the Cavaliers.<\/p>\n<p>Smith was a free agent as the Cavaliers waived him in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>The paused 2019-20 season in the NBA will begin on July 30 at the ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex near Orlando, Florida.<em><strong>\u00a0(Anadolu)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ANKARA\u00a0\u2013 The Los Angeles Lakers signed US shooting guard JR Smith on Wednesday. &#8220;OFFICIAL: Welcome to the squad, @TheRealJRSmith!,&#8221; the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":260220,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-260219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","mauthors-anadolu","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260219","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=260219"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":260221,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260219\/revisions\/260221"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/260220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}