{"id":129714,"date":"2019-08-08T20:26:03","date_gmt":"2019-08-08T20:26:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.do\/?p=129714"},"modified":"2019-08-12T13:58:30","modified_gmt":"2019-08-12T13:58:30","slug":"dominican-basketball-player-gets-us4-3-million-to-play-in-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2019\/08\/08\/dominican-basketball-player-gets-us4-3-million-to-play-in-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Dominican basketball player gets US$4.3 million to play in China"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/dr1.do\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Angel-Luis-Delgado-Astacio-Facebook-e1565281325282.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-129693\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Beijing Royal Fighters of the China Basketball Association has contracted 24-year old Angel Delgado for a season of play. As reported by journalist Shams Charania of The Athletic, the Chinese team had originally offered US$2.4 million.  But when the Oklahoma City Thunder offered a better deal, the Chinese team doubled its bid to lure Delgado. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 6\u201910 basketball player was named Novice of the Year of the NBA G-League. He competed for the Agua Caliente Clippers. Former NBA All-Star and CBA legend Stephen Marbury; and former NBAers Pierre Jackson and Shavlik Randolph played for the team last season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Delgado has been a member of the national basketball team since 2015. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.clipsnation.com\/2019\/8\/7\/20759985\/la-clippers-news-angel-delgado-g-league-rookie-of-the-year-beijing-royal-fighters-cba\">Clips Nation<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>8 August 2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beijing Royal Fighters of the China Basketball Association has contracted 24-year old Angel Delgado for a season of play. As reported by journalist Shams Charania of The Athletic, the Chinese team had originally offered US$2.4 million. But when the Oklahoma City Thunder offered a better deal, the Chinese team doubled its bid to lure Delgado. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2019\/08\/08\/dominican-basketball-player-gets-us4-3-million-to-play-in-china\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[154,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129714"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129714"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":129716,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129714\/revisions\/129716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}