{"id":48085,"date":"2016-07-04T13:01:22","date_gmt":"2016-07-04T17:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=48085"},"modified":"2016-07-04T13:09:08","modified_gmt":"2016-07-04T17:09:08","slug":"kevin-durant-announces-he-will-sign-with-golden-state-warriors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=48085","title":{"rendered":"Kevin Durant Announces He Will Sign With Golden State Warriors"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"module-position-PKV4TnMinS0\" class=\"story-asset story-metadata-asset\"><\/div>\n<p>Kevin Durant\u00a0has agreed to sign with the\u00a0Golden State Warriors, he announced Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The contract will be a\u00a02-year, $54 million, with player option for second year, according to a person familiar with the deal.\u00a0Contract will allow Durant to maximize the projected salary cap of $107 million next year. The person spoke to a reporter on condition of anonymity because contracts can&#8217;t be signed until the moratorium ends on July 7.<\/p>\n<p>Durant, the former MVP and\u00a0seven-time All-Star during his first nine seasons with theOklahoma City Thunder, took a deliberate approach to his free agency. He and his representatives from\u00a0Roc Nation Sports\u00a0set a six-team schedule with the Golden State Warriors,\u00a0Los Angeles Clippers,\u00a0San Antonio Spurs,\u00a0Boston Celtics, Miami Heat and the Thunder in the Hamptons from Friday through Sunday. Every team had its reasons to be at least mildly hopeful, but none more so than Oklahoma City. From the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nba\/thunder\/2016\/05\/09\/kevin-durant-thunder-free-agency\/84158208\/\">massive edge they had on the financial front<\/a>,\u00a0to the nine years of shared history, to the moves they made leading into the Durant sweepstakes, the Thunder did a masterful job of putting themselves in prime position to keep him.<\/p>\n<p>While the Thunder made a strong push, he decided to join arguably the best team in the league for the past couple of seasons because he hopes it&#8217;s his best opportunity to win a title.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kevin Durant\u00a0has agreed to sign with the\u00a0Golden State Warriors, he announced Monday. The contract will be a\u00a02-year, $54 million, with player option for second year, according to a person familiar with the deal.\u00a0Contract will allow Durant to maximize the projected salary cap of $107 million next year. The person spoke to a reporter on condition [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88910,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48085","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\/48085","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\/88910"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48085\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}