{"id":14516,"date":"2012-05-14T15:34:57","date_gmt":"2012-05-14T19:34:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=14516"},"modified":"2012-05-14T15:34:57","modified_gmt":"2012-05-14T19:34:57","slug":"kyrie-irving-picked-as-nba-rookie-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=14516","title":{"rendered":"Kyrie Irving Picked As NBA Rookie Of  The Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CLEVELAND \u2014 Cleveland\u2019s smooth, playmaking point guard, <strong>Kyrie Irving<\/strong> has been chosen as the NBA\u2019s Rookie of the Year.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Irving\u2019s<\/strong> selection is hardly a surprise since the 20-year-old led all first-year players in scoring \u2014 18.5 points per game \u2014 and renewed hope for Cleveland\u2019s franchise. He\u2019ll receive the award Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Irving<\/strong> is the second Cavaliers player to win the award, joining <strong>LeBron James<\/strong> in 2004.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Irving\u2019s<\/strong> is the final postseason award to be announced by the league.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Irving<\/strong> recently treated himself to a postseason vacation in the Bahamas. In June, he\u2019s expected to play on the Cavs summer league team in Las Vegas and will be part of a U.S. Select Team which will train against the American Olympic team going to the London Games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CLEVELAND \u2014 Cleveland\u2019s smooth, playmaking point guard, Kyrie Irving has been chosen as the NBA\u2019s Rookie of the Year. Irving\u2019s selection is hardly a surprise since the 20-year-old led all first-year players in scoring \u2014 18.5 points per game \u2014 and renewed hope for Cleveland\u2019s franchise. He\u2019ll receive the award Tuesday. Irving is the second [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14516\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}