{"id":4068,"date":"2011-03-03T14:54:51","date_gmt":"2011-03-03T19:54:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=4068"},"modified":"2011-03-03T14:54:51","modified_gmt":"2011-03-03T19:54:51","slug":"perkins-signs-extension-with-thunder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=4068","title":{"rendered":"Perkins Signs Extension With Thunder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OKLAHOMA CITY \u2014 Before even playing a game with the Oklahoma City Thunder, center <strong>Kendrick Perkins<\/strong> signed an extension Tuesday to stay with his new team for a while.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Perkins<\/strong> joined the Thunder five days ago in a trade with Boston, where he spent the first seven years of his career and won the 2008 NBA title.<\/p>\n<p>Now, he\u2019s due to make about $36 million while staying in Oklahoma City through the 2014-15 season.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Perkins <\/strong>said he was attracted to stay in Oklahoma City because of similarities he sees to his Texas hometown and by his first impressions of the Thunder as a \u201cfirst-class\u201d organization. He would have become an unrestricted free agent at the end of the season, but said he didn\u2019t \u201cwant to take anything for granted.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OKLAHOMA CITY \u2014 Before even playing a game with the Oklahoma City Thunder, center Kendrick Perkins signed an extension Tuesday to stay with his new team for a while. Perkins joined the Thunder five days ago in a trade with Boston, where he spent the first seven years of his career and won the 2008 [&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-4068","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\/4068","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=4068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4068\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}