{"id":16268,"date":"2012-08-20T16:00:30","date_gmt":"2012-08-20T20:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=16268"},"modified":"2012-08-20T16:00:30","modified_gmt":"2012-08-20T20:00:30","slug":"okcs-ibaka-inks-48m-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=16268","title":{"rendered":"OKC\u2019s Ibaka Inks $48M Extension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OKLAHOMA CITY\u00a0 \u2014 The Oklahoma City Thunder took a big step toward sticking around as an NBA championship contender.<\/p>\n<p>The Thunder and general manager <strong>Sam Presti<\/strong> still face difficult decisions in the team\u2019s quest to remain a title threat for the long haul after reaching the NBA Finals last season, but reaching a contract extension with blocks leader <strong>Serge Ibaka<\/strong> is certainly a good start.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ibaka<\/strong> came to terms on the deal on Saturday as the Thunder locked up another key member of their nucleus while also putting into question whether the small-market team can afford to keep Sixth Man of the Year<strong> James Harden<\/strong> beyond next season..<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ibaka<\/strong> posted on Twitter that he was happy for the chance to play for the Thunder for five more years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OKLAHOMA CITY\u00a0 \u2014 The Oklahoma City Thunder took a big step toward sticking around as an NBA championship contender. The Thunder and general manager Sam Presti still face difficult decisions in the team\u2019s quest to remain a title threat for the long haul after reaching the NBA Finals last season, but reaching a contract extension [&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-16268","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\/16268","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=16268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}