{"id":947,"date":"2013-06-28T18:34:05","date_gmt":"2013-06-28T22:34:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/?p=947"},"modified":"2013-06-28T18:34:17","modified_gmt":"2013-06-28T22:34:17","slug":"ray-allen-picks-up-player-option","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/2013\/06\/28\/ray-allen-picks-up-player-option\/","title":{"rendered":"Ray Allen picks up player option to remain with Heat"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_948\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-948\" style=\"width: 614px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-948\" alt=\"Source: Mike Ehrmann\/Getty Images North America\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/files\/2013\/06\/allen.jpg\" width=\"614\" height=\"409\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/files\/2013\/06\/allen.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/files\/2013\/06\/allen-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 614px) 100vw, 614px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-948\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Mike Ehrmann\/Getty Images North America<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Miami Heat guard Ray Allen picked up his $3.2 million option for next season, according to Chris Tomasson on Twitter.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>Ray Allen has exercised his $3.23 million option next season and will return to the Miami Heat. It&#8217;s confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Chris Tomasson (@christomasson) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/christomasson\/statuses\/350728831839113216\">June 28, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Allen played in 79 games during the regular season, proving his durability, and averaged 10.9 points while shooting 42 percent from 3-point range.<\/p>\n<p>With Allen&#8217;s decision, the Heat will be facing a luxury tax bill of about $30 million for next season. Veterans James Jones and Rashard Lewis also picked up player options for next season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Miami Heat guard Ray Allen picked up his $3.2 million option for next season, according to Chris Tomasson on Twitter. Ray Allen has exercised his $3.23 million option next season and will return to the Miami Heat. It&#8217;s confirmed. \u2014 Chris Tomasson (@christomasson) June 28, 2013 Allen played in 79 games during the regular season, [&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-947","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\/947","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=947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=947"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}