{"id":390,"date":"2014-02-01T11:03:12","date_gmt":"2014-02-01T16:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nba\/?p=390"},"modified":"2014-02-01T11:03:12","modified_gmt":"2014-02-01T16:03:12","slug":"pacers-sign-andrew-bynum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nba\/2014\/02\/01\/pacers-sign-andrew-bynum\/","title":{"rendered":"Pacers sign Andrew Bynum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nba\/files\/2014\/02\/andrewbynum.jpg\" alt=\"andrewbynum\" width=\"650\" height=\"440\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-391\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nba\/files\/2014\/02\/andrewbynum.jpg 650w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nba\/files\/2014\/02\/andrewbynum-594x402.jpg 594w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nba\/files\/2014\/02\/andrewbynum-300x203.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><br \/>\nThe Indiana Pacers announced Saturday they have signed free agent center Andrew Bynum to a contract. Bynum&#8217;s deal with the Pacers will run though the end of the season.<\/p>\n<p>The 7-1, 285-pound Bynum played seven seasons with the Los Angeles Lakers before being traded to the Philadelphia 76ers in 2012. Knee issues forced him to miss the entire season and he headed to the Cleveland Cavilers this season before they traded him to the Chicago Bulls who later released him. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are obviously happy to have him join our team,\u201d said Pacers President of Basketball Operations Larry Bird. \u201cHe gives us added size, he is a skilled big man and he has championship experience. With the minutes he gets, he should be a valuable addition.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bynum will join the Pacers sometime next week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt really wasn\u2019t a hard decision, I think it\u2019s the right fit for me and, in all honesty, I think we\u2019ve got the best chance of winning,\u201d said Bynum. \u201cIt will be great to back up Roy and I\u2019ll do whatever I can to help this team.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Indiana Pacers announced Saturday they have signed free agent center Andrew Bynum to a contract. Bynum&#8217;s deal with the Pacers will run though the end of the season. The 7-1, 285-pound Bynum played seven seasons with the Los Angeles Lakers before being traded to the Philadelphia 76ers in 2012. Knee issues forced him to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":391,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[190,191,5],"coauthors":[7],"class_list":{"0":"post-390","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba-news","8":"tag-andrew-bynum","9":"tag-indiana-pacers","10":"tag-nba"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}