{"id":1610,"date":"2012-07-31T15:45:47","date_gmt":"2012-07-31T20:45:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=1610"},"modified":"2012-07-31T15:45:47","modified_gmt":"2012-07-31T20:45:47","slug":"timberwolves-introduce-brandon-roy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=1610","title":{"rendered":"Timberwolves Introduce Brandon Roy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0MINNEAPOLIS (AP) &#8211; Brandon Roy says his retirement from the NBA<br \/>\nlast year was never final.<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Roy was introduced Tuesday by the Minnesota Timberwolves.<\/p>\n<p>He says he considered having last season off as more of a &#8220;pause&#8221;<br \/>\nwhile he worked through chronic knee problems that ended his tenure<br \/>\nwith the Portland Trail Blazers.<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Roy signed a two-year, $10.4 million contract to resume his<br \/>\ncareer with the Wolves.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/timberwolves.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1481\" title=\"timberwolves\" src=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/timberwolves-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>They actually drafted him in 2006 but traded him to the Blazers a few minutes later for another shooting guard, Randy Foye.<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Roy says he&#8217;s eager to get back to playing &#8220;at a high level&#8221;<br \/>\nand help the Wolves try to make the playoffs. Roy averaged 19<br \/>\npoints per game over five seasons with the Blazers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0MINNEAPOLIS (AP) &#8211; Brandon Roy says his retirement from the NBA last year was never final. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Roy was introduced Tuesday by the Minnesota Timberwolves. He says he considered having last season off as more of a &#8220;pause&#8221; while he worked through chronic knee problems that ended his tenure with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1610","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=1610"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1611,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1610\/revisions\/1611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}