{"id":960,"date":"2013-07-02T15:27:07","date_gmt":"2013-07-02T19:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/?p=960"},"modified":"2013-07-02T15:27:07","modified_gmt":"2013-07-02T19:27:07","slug":"pacers-bring-back-david-west-for-3-years-36-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/2013\/07\/02\/pacers-bring-back-david-west-for-3-years-36-million\/","title":{"rendered":"Pacers bring back David West for 3 years, $36 million"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_962\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-962\" style=\"width: 607px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-962\" alt=\"Mike Ehrmann\/Getty Images North America\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/files\/2013\/07\/davidwest.jpg\" width=\"607\" height=\"396\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/files\/2013\/07\/davidwest.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/files\/2013\/07\/davidwest-300x195.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 607px) 100vw, 607px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-962\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mike Ehrmann\/Getty Images North America<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Indiana Pacers and David West have agreed to terms on a 3 year, $36 million contract according to Adrian Wojnarowski on Twitter.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>Pacers are finalizing a three-year, approximately $36 million deal with David West, league source tells Y! Third year likely player option.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Adrian Wojnarowski (@WojYahooNBA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WojYahooNBA\/statuses\/352106452128776193\">July 2, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>West is a vital part of the Pacers core, so its good to see him coming back. He is a two-time All-Star, and was Indiana\u2019s second-leading scorer and second-leading rebounder. West is widely recognized as one of the team\u2019s locker-room leaders.\u00a0 He will return to the team that pushed the defending champion Miami Heat to seven games in the Eastern Conference Finals after a regular season in which they finished 49-32.<\/p>\n<p>West averaged 17.1 points, 7.7 rebounds and 2.9 assists last season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Indiana Pacers and David West have agreed to terms on a 3 year, $36 million contract according to Adrian Wojnarowski on Twitter. Pacers are finalizing a three-year, approximately $36 million deal with David West, league source tells Y! Third year likely player option. \u2014 Adrian Wojnarowski (@WojYahooNBA) July 2, 2013 &nbsp; West is a [&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-960","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\/960","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=960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=960"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}