{"id":17520,"date":"2020-11-24T13:29:02","date_gmt":"2020-11-24T07:59:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=75635"},"modified":"2020-11-24T13:29:02","modified_gmt":"2020-11-24T07:59:02","slug":"nba-steven-adams-gets-traded-to-the-new-orleans-pelicans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/nba\/nba-steven-adams-gets-traded-to-the-new-orleans-pelicans\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA: Steven Adams gets traded to the New Orleans Pelicans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Steven Adams\u2019 7 year stay at Oklahoma City Thunder has come to an end after he got traded to the New Orleans Pelicans earlier this morning. Zach Lowe from ESPN reported that The Pelicans signed Steven Adams on a 2 year deal with a 35 million dollar extension. The contract runs through the 2022-21 season, \u201cfully guaranteed\u201d.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">As part of his trade to New Orleans, the Pelicans have signed Steven Adams to a 2-year, $35M extension, sources tell <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wojespn?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@wojespn<\/a> and I.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Zach Lowe (@ZachLowe_NBA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ZachLowe_NBA\/status\/1331094812431446018?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 24, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Extension runs through the 2022-23 season, is fully guaranteed, sources say. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/EnwhzOsgOW\">https:\/\/t.co\/EnwhzOsgOW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Zach Lowe (@ZachLowe_NBA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ZachLowe_NBA\/status\/1331094945185357827?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 24, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Oklahoma City Thunder get a 27.5 million dollar trade exception, as per reported by ESPN\u2019s Bobby Marks. This\u00a0 allows the franchise to trade for a player without sending any salary out in a trade.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The $27..5M trade exception that OKC has created from the Steve Adams trade to NOP is the largest (for now) in NBA history. OKC will have a year to use.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Bobby Marks (@BobbyMarks42) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BobbyMarks42\/status\/1331090956288929794?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 24, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Steven Adams averaged 10.9 points per game at 59% field goal accuracy in the 2019-20 season. The 6\u201911 center also averaged 9.3 rebounds and 1.1 blocks per game during the campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Steven Adams and Zion Williamson are good big men options for the Pelicans going into the new season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This trade creates the most expensive trade exception in the history of the NBA. (27.5 million dollars)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":38264,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1104,1007,1103],"class_list":["post-17520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","tag-new-orleans-pelicans","tag-oklahoma-city-thunder","tag-steven-adams"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17520\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}