{"id":1239,"date":"2013-08-02T22:26:23","date_gmt":"2013-08-03T02:26:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/?p=1239"},"modified":"2013-08-02T22:26:42","modified_gmt":"2013-08-03T02:26:42","slug":"greg-oden-to-sign-with-heat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/2013\/08\/02\/greg-oden-to-sign-with-heat\/","title":{"rendered":"Greg Oden to sign with Heat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1240\" alt=\"gregoden\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/files\/2013\/08\/gregoden.jpg\" width=\"594\" height=\"411\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/files\/2013\/08\/gregoden.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/files\/2013\/08\/gregoden-300x207.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Greg Oden has not played an NBA game in three years but the former No. 1 pick will join the Miami Heat.<\/p>\n<p>Oden, 25, will have a deal with the Heat which is for a minimum of two years with a player option in the second year according to ESPN.<\/p>\n<p>Heat president Pat Riley began recruiting Oden before the 2012-13 season ended. It probably did not hurt the Heat&#8217;s chances to sign him considering they are coming off an NBA title.<\/p>\n<p>Oden said it was a &#8220;big deciding factor&#8221; that Heat officials made it clear to him that he &#8220;wouldn&#8217;t be needed as much early in the season&#8221; as he works his way back from more than three years out of the league.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When I had a conversation with Coach (Erik) Spoelstra and hearing how much he knew about the training stuff that I was already doing, it kind of made me feel like they know what&#8217;s best for me,&#8221; Oden said in a phone interview.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m not going to sit here and say I&#8217;m 100 percent,&#8221; Oden added. &#8220;I am moving (well) and I am feeling good, but I have a lot of work to do.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greg Oden has not played an NBA game in three years but the former No. 1 pick will join the Miami Heat. Oden, 25, will have a deal with the Heat which is for a minimum of two years with a player option in the second year according to ESPN. Heat president Pat Riley began [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1240,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,4],"tags":[97],"coauthors":[3],"class_list":{"0":"post-1239","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-back-page-featured","8":"category-news","9":"tag-greg-oden"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1239\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1239"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}