{"id":944,"date":"2013-06-28T12:08:34","date_gmt":"2013-06-28T16:08:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/?p=944"},"modified":"2013-06-28T12:08:34","modified_gmt":"2013-06-28T16:08:34","slug":"denver-nuggets-forward-andre-iguodala-opts-out-of-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/2013\/06\/28\/denver-nuggets-forward-andre-iguodala-opts-out-of-contract\/","title":{"rendered":"Denver Nuggets forward Andre Iguodala opts out of contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_945\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-945\" style=\"width: 657px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-945\" alt=\"andre\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/files\/2013\/06\/andre.jpg\" width=\"657\" height=\"537\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/files\/2013\/06\/andre.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/files\/2013\/06\/andre-300x245.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 657px) 100vw, 657px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-945\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Doug Pensinger\/Getty Images North America<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Denver Nuggets forward, Andre Iguodala officially opted out of the last year of his contract on Friday morning, according to ESPN&#8217;s Chris Broussard.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>Source: Andre Iguodala has officially filed his opt-out paperwork. Nuggets have received it.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Chris Broussard (@Chris_Broussard) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Chris_Broussard\/statuses\/350633437868212225\">June 28, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Iguodala, was acquired by the Nuggets in a four-way trade involving Dwight Howard in which Denver sent Arron Afflalo to Orlando.<\/p>\n<p>Just because Iguodala opted out of his contract, that does not mean management is prepared to let him walk. According to team CEO Josh Kroenke, the Nuggets&#8217; top priority is re-signing Iguodala.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are fully aware of Andre&#8217;s intentions and he&#8217;s well aware of how much we want him back,&#8221; Kroenke told Yahoo Sports. &#8220;Andre is a huge priority for our organization.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Iguodala was set to make a little more than $16 million in his final year. He feels he could command more on the open market.<\/p>\n<p>If Iguodala didn&#8217;t exercise the termination clause, the longest extension he could sign with the Nuggets would be three years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Denver Nuggets forward, Andre Iguodala officially opted out of the last year of his contract on Friday morning, according to ESPN&#8217;s Chris Broussard. Source: Andre Iguodala has officially filed his opt-out paperwork. Nuggets have received it. \u2014 Chris Broussard (@Chris_Broussard) June 28, 2013 Iguodala, was acquired by the Nuggets in a four-way trade involving Dwight [&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-944","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\/944","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=944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=944"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}