{"id":1221,"date":"2013-07-31T16:37:31","date_gmt":"2013-07-31T20:37:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/?p=1221"},"modified":"2013-07-31T16:37:31","modified_gmt":"2013-07-31T20:37:31","slug":"washington-wizards-john-wall-signs-max-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/2013\/07\/31\/washington-wizards-john-wall-signs-max-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington Wizards John Wall signs max deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1223\" alt=\"wall\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/files\/2013\/07\/wall.jpg\" width=\"645\" height=\"452\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/files\/2013\/07\/wall.jpg 1840w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/files\/2013\/07\/wall-300x210.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/files\/2013\/07\/wall-1024x718.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/files\/2013\/07\/wall-70x50.jpg 70w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 645px) 100vw, 645px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Washington Wizards guard John Wall officially signed his maximum five-year, $80 million contract extension Wednesday afternoon, according to Michael Lee of the Washington Post.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>Source: John Wall has officially signed a maximum contract extension worth approximately $80 million over 5 years <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23wizards&amp;src=hash\">#wizards<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Michael Lee (@MrMichaelLee) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MrMichaelLee\/statuses\/362664017732440065\">July 31, 2013<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The deal is expected to be released on Thursday during a news conference, that has been scheduled since last week. Wall struggled through injuries in 2012-13, but was a beast after the All-Star break. He is just now getting an adequate supporting cast around him.<\/p>\n<p>Wall, 22, averaged 20.7 points, 4.5 boards, 7.8 assists and 1.5 steals in 31 game post-break games and looked like the star everyone expected when he was taken with the No. 1 overall pick.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington Wizards guard John Wall officially signed his maximum five-year, $80 million contract extension Wednesday afternoon, according to Michael Lee of the Washington Post. Source: John Wall has officially signed a maximum contract extension worth approximately $80 million over 5 years #wizards \u2014 Michael Lee (@MrMichaelLee) July 31, 2013 &nbsp; The deal is expected to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"coauthors":[17],"class_list":{"0":"post-1221","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1221\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1221"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}