{"id":50966,"date":"2014-07-28T16:52:21","date_gmt":"2014-07-28T21:52:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=50966"},"modified":"2014-07-28T16:52:21","modified_gmt":"2014-07-28T21:52:21","slug":"t-wolves-sign-mo-williams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=50966","title":{"rendered":"T-Wolves Sign Mo Williams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0MINNEAPOLIS (AP) &#8211; The Minnesota Timberwolves and free-agent guard Mo Williams have agreed to a one-year deal worth $3.75 million.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Williams&#8217; agency, Priority Sports, announced the agreement on Monday. Williams is coming off an up-and-down season with the Portland Trail Blazers, but the Timberwolves see the veteran combo guard as an ideal pairing with rookie Zach LaVine on the team&#8217;s second unit.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Williams averaged 9.7 points last season for his lowest total since his rookie year in 2003-04. He turns 32 in December and gives the Wolves some much-needed experience behind starting guards Ricky Rubio and Kevin Martin.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The agreement also could mean veteran J.J. Barea is on his way out. Barea is entering the final year of his contract.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0MINNEAPOLIS (AP) &#8211; The Minnesota Timberwolves and free-agent guard Mo Williams have agreed to a one-year deal worth $3.75 million. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Williams&#8217; agency, Priority Sports, announced the agreement on Monday. Williams is coming off an up-and-down season with the Portland Trail Blazers, but the Timberwolves see the veteran combo [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":24630,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50966","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\/50966","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=50966"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50968,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50966\/revisions\/50968"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}