{"id":173658,"date":"2019-06-11T07:24:10","date_gmt":"2019-06-11T12:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=173658"},"modified":"2019-06-11T07:24:10","modified_gmt":"2019-06-11T12:24:10","slug":"tony-parker-retires-from-nba-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=173658","title":{"rendered":"Tony Parker retires from NBA play"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-173659\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/ParkerTony.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"268\" height=\"161\" \/>UNDATED (AP) _ One of the NBA\u2019s greatest point guards is calling it a career.<\/p>\n<p>Four-time NBA champion Tony Parker has announced he\u2019s retiring after 18 seasons, saying it was an \u201cincredible journey. The 37-year-old Parker played 17 seasons for the Spurs and made the postseason every year of his career before joining the Hornets and missing out this season.<\/p>\n<p>Parker started 1,151 games regular season games and averaged 15.5 points and 5.6 assists per game. He also played in 226 playoffs games, averaging 17.9 points and 5.1 assists per game.<\/p>\n<p>He was selected to six All-Star Games and named second-team All-NBA three times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UNDATED (AP) _ One of the NBA\u2019s greatest point guards is calling it a career. Four-time NBA champion Tony Parker has announced he\u2019s retiring after 18 seasons, saying it was an \u201cincredible journey. The 37-year-old Parker played 17 seasons for the Spurs and made the postseason every year of his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":173660,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=173658"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":173661,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173658\/revisions\/173661"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/173660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=173658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=173658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=173658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}