{"id":9830,"date":"2011-09-12T16:15:41","date_gmt":"2011-09-12T20:15:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=9830"},"modified":"2011-09-12T16:15:41","modified_gmt":"2011-09-12T20:15:41","slug":"all-star-guard-deron-williams-arrives-in-istanbul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=9830","title":{"rendered":"All-Star Guard  Deron Williams Arrives In Istanbul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>ANKARA, TURKEY<\/strong> \u2014 New Jersey Nets point guard<strong> Deron Williams<\/strong> has arrived in Istanbul to start his stint with Turkish basketball team Besiktas.<\/p>\n<p>The Istanbul-based club said the All-Star guard arrived Thursday together with his family. <strong>Williams<\/strong> has joined Besiktas until the end of the NBA lockout. <strong>Williams<\/strong> averaged 20.1 points and 10.3 assists for the Nets and the Utah Jazz last season.<\/p>\n<p>Besiktas signed <strong>Allen Iverson<\/strong> last season, but the former NBA MVP only played 10 games because of injury. Other NBA players that have signed to play in the Turkish league include Nets guard <strong>Sasha Vujacic<\/strong>, <strong>Darius Songaila<\/strong> of the Philadelphia 76ers and Nets draft pick <strong>Bojan Bogdanovic<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ANKARA, TURKEY \u2014 New Jersey Nets point guard Deron Williams has arrived in Istanbul to start his stint with Turkish basketball team Besiktas. The Istanbul-based club said the All-Star guard arrived Thursday together with his family. Williams has joined Besiktas until the end of the NBA lockout. Williams averaged 20.1 points and 10.3 assists for [&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-9830","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\/9830","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=9830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9830\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}