{"id":410,"date":"2014-02-09T12:50:59","date_gmt":"2014-02-09T17:50:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nba\/?p=410"},"modified":"2014-02-09T12:51:01","modified_gmt":"2014-02-09T17:51:01","slug":"pistons-fire-head-coach-maurice-cheeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nba\/2014\/02\/09\/pistons-fire-head-coach-maurice-cheeks\/","title":{"rendered":"Pistons fire head coach Maurice Cheeks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-411\" alt=\"NBA: All Star Game-BBVA Rising Stars Challenge\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nba\/files\/2014\/02\/mauricecheeks.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nba\/files\/2014\/02\/mauricecheeks.jpg 640w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nba\/files\/2014\/02\/mauricecheeks-594x371.jpg 594w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nba\/files\/2014\/02\/mauricecheeks-300x187.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nba\/files\/2014\/02\/mauricecheeks-85x54.jpg 85w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Detroit Pistons have fired Maurice Cheeks as their head coach. With 50 games played the Pistons were 21-29 under Cheeks who was fired on Sunday morning according to Yahoo! Sports.<\/p>\n<p>Before coming to Detroit, Cheeks previously coached the Portland Trail Blazers and Philadelphia 76ers.<\/p>\n<p>Cheeks, 57, owns a 305-315 career record over parts of nine seasons. As a player he was a four-time NBA All-Star during a career that lasted 15 seasons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Detroit Pistons have fired Maurice Cheeks as their head coach. With 50 games played the Pistons were 21-29 under Cheeks who was fired on Sunday morning according to Yahoo! Sports. Before coming to Detroit, Cheeks previously coached the Portland Trail Blazers and Philadelphia 76ers. Cheeks, 57, owns a 305-315 career record over parts of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":411,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,11],"tags":[12,193,5],"coauthors":[7],"class_list":["post-410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba-news","category-nba-topstory","tag-front","tag-maurice-cheeks","tag-nba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410","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=410"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":412,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410\/revisions\/412"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}