{"id":1717,"date":"2012-08-02T14:39:37","date_gmt":"2012-08-02T19:39:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=1717"},"modified":"2012-08-02T14:39:37","modified_gmt":"2012-08-02T19:39:37","slug":"t-wolves-sign-stiemsma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=1717","title":{"rendered":"T-Wolves Sign Stiemsma"},"content":{"rendered":"<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>MINNEAPOLIS (AP) &#8211; Greg Stiemsma has signed with the Minnesota<br \/>\nTimberwolves.<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The deal was done Thursday.<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The 26-year-old Stiemsma was named the 2010 NBA Developmental<br \/>\nLeague Defensive Player of the Year after he averaged 9.1 points,<br \/>\n7.3 rebounds and a league-leading 3.7 blocks per game for the Sioux<br \/>\nFalls Sky Force.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s when he says he made the most strides in his professional career and gained the necessary confidence to believe he could stay in the NBA.<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 After playing the following season in Turkey, Stiemsma joined<br \/>\nthe Celtics last season and appeared in 55 games, averaging 2.9<br \/>\npoints, 3.2 rebounds, 1.5 blocks and 13.9 minutes.<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 He says he would&#8217;ve liked to have returned to Boston but that<br \/>\nMinnesota was &#8220;not a hard sell&#8221; given the proximity to his<br \/>\nWisconsin home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MINNEAPOLIS (AP) &#8211; Greg Stiemsma has signed with the Minnesota Timberwolves. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The deal was done Thursday. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The 26-year-old Stiemsma was named the 2010 NBA Developmental League Defensive Player of the Year after he averaged 9.1 points, 7.3 rebounds and a league-leading 3.7 blocks per game for the Sioux [&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-1717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1717","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=1717"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1718,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1717\/revisions\/1718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}