{"id":75258,"date":"2016-07-04T23:33:49","date_gmt":"2016-07-04T23:33:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/?p=75258"},"modified":"2016-07-04T23:33:49","modified_gmt":"2016-07-04T23:33:49","slug":"al-horford-to-boston-celtics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2016\/07\/04\/al-horford-to-boston-celtics\/","title":{"rendered":"Al Horford to Boston Celtics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> 30-year old Dominican Al Horford, four-time All Star Atlanta Hawks basketball player has accepted a four-year US$113 million max deal to play with the Boston Celtics. Horford had played the seven years of his career with the Atlanta Hawks. <\/p>\n<p> Boston.com called the Horford deal a turning point for the Boston Celtics.<\/p>\n<p> Boston Herald reported: &#8220;The money was no factor. Horford could have gotten that elsewhere. This was about him judging that the Celtics were a team on the rise that he wanted to play for. This was about him eschewing warmer cities and choosing Boston.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> There is speculation that Horford&#8217;s signing may pave the way for the Celtics signing of coveted Thunder star Kevin Durant.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p> Horford is married to the Dominican Republic&#8217;s only Miss Universe, Amelia Vega with whom he has one son and a baby girl on the way. <\/p>\n<p> https:\/\/www.boston.com\/sports\/boston-celtics\/2016\/07\/03\/al-horford-gamechanger-celtics-now-future<\/p>\n<p> http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nba\/2016\/07\/02\/kevin-durant-free-agency-day-2-celtics-big-splash\/86648620\/<\/p>\n<p> http:\/\/www.peachtreehoops.com\/2016\/7\/3\/12090922\/al-horford-made-it-possible-to-be-an-atlanta-hawks-fan?_ga=1.211644821.1298157176.1409693913<\/p>\n<p> http:\/\/espn.go.com\/nba\/story\/_\/id\/16712043\/al-horford-boston-celtics-agree-terms-four-year-113-million-deal-according-league-sources<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>30-year old Dominican Al Horford, four-time All Star Atlanta Hawks basketball player has accepted a four-year US$113 million max deal to play with the Boston Celtics. Horford had played the seven years of his career with the Atlanta Hawks. Boston.com called the Horford deal a turning point for the Boston Celtics. Boston Herald reported: &#8220;The &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2016\/07\/04\/al-horford-to-boston-celtics\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75258"}],"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=75258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75258\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}