{"id":23676,"date":"2013-08-22T14:45:14","date_gmt":"2013-08-22T18:45:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=23676"},"modified":"2013-08-22T14:45:14","modified_gmt":"2013-08-22T18:45:14","slug":"cavs-sign-top-pick-anthony-bennett-to-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=23676","title":{"rendered":"Cavs Sign Top Pick Anthony Bennett To Contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CLEVELAND \u2014 The Cavaliers have signed<b> Anthony Bennett<\/b>, the No. 1 overall pick in this year\u2019s draft, to his guaranteed rookie contract.<\/p>\n<p>Financial terms were not immediately known, but the deal can be worth up to $22.8 million over four years. <b>Bennett <\/b>was somewhat of a surprising selection by the Cavaliers, who believe the 6-foot-8, 240-pounder from UNLV can play power forward.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s recovering from shoulder surgery, but the Toronto native is expected to be ready for the start of training camp. He averaged 16.1 points and 8.1 rebounds as a freshman with the Runnin\u2019 Rebels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CLEVELAND \u2014 The Cavaliers have signed Anthony Bennett, the No. 1 overall pick in this year\u2019s draft, to his guaranteed rookie contract. Financial terms were not immediately known, but the deal can be worth up to $22.8 million over four years. Bennett was somewhat of a surprising selection by the Cavaliers, who believe the 6-foot-8, [&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-23676","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\/23676","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=23676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23676\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}