{"id":1451,"date":"2012-07-27T16:32:56","date_gmt":"2012-07-27T21:32:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=1451"},"modified":"2012-07-29T10:21:28","modified_gmt":"2012-07-29T15:21:28","slug":"timberwolves-sign-kirilenko","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=1451","title":{"rendered":"Timberwolves Sign Kirilenko"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/timberwolves.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1481\" title=\"timberwolves\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/timberwolves-300x221.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"221\" \/><\/a>MANKATO, Minn. (AP) \u2014 The Minnesota Timberwolves have signed free agent Andrei Kirilenko, bringing the versatile forward back to the NBA after a one-season absence.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The contract was completed Friday as soon as the Wolves consummated their three-team trade with New Orleans and Phoenix to clear space under the salary cap for Kirilenko.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The 31-year-old Kirilenko is currently playing with the Russian national team at the Summer Olympics in London.<\/p>\n<p>He played 10 years for the Utah Jazz, averaging 12.4 points and 5.6 rebounds per game, but spent the 2011-12 season with the CKSA Moscow club.<\/p>\n<p>He won the Most Valuable Player and Best Defender awards in the Euroleague.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Kirilenko says he&#8217;s eager to play for head coach Rick Adelman and that feels his game \u201cfits in well with his style of play.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANKATO, Minn. (AP) \u2014 The Minnesota Timberwolves have signed free agent Andrei Kirilenko, bringing the versatile forward back to the NBA after a one-season absence.\u00a0 The contract was completed Friday as soon as the Wolves consummated their three-team trade with New Orleans and Phoenix to clear space under the salary [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1451"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1485,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1451\/revisions\/1485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}