{"id":427840,"date":"2023-02-28T16:15:34","date_gmt":"2023-02-28T21:15:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=427840"},"modified":"2023-02-28T16:15:34","modified_gmt":"2023-02-28T21:15:34","slug":"will-barton-to-join-raptors-report","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/will-barton-to-join-raptors-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Barton to join Raptors &#8211; report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Free agent Will Barton will join the Toronto Raptors, according to several media reports on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">REPORT: Will Barton is signing with the Raptors, via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wojespn?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@wojespn<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/cX19JRAQQE\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/cX19JRAQQE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Legion Hoops (@LegionHoops) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LegionHoops\/status\/1630667397555441664?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">February 28, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The 32-year-old shooting guard Barton reached a contract buyout with the Washington Wizards, who officially then released him last week.<\/p>\n<p>Barton, who was averaging 7.7 points per game in 40 appearances off the bench for the Wizards this season, his first in D.C., is playoff-eligible with the Raptors, beating the March 1 deadline.<\/p>\n<p>He was dealt to Washington in the summer trade that sent Kentavious Caldwell-Pope and Ish Smith to the Denver Nuggets.<\/p>\n<p>Barton averages 11.4 points and 4.2 rebounds per game in 663 career contests (284 starts) with the Portland Trail Blazers (2012-15), Nuggets (2015-22) and Wizards.<\/p>\n<p>The Blazers selected Barton in the second round (40th overall pick) of the 2012 draft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Free agent Will Barton will join the Toronto Raptors, according to several media reports on Tuesday. REPORT: Will Barton is signing with the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":427841,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17079,17235],"news_category":[16706],"gn_keywords":[],"acf":{"announce":"He was officially released by Wizards last week","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/427840"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=427840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/427840\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/427841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427840"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=427840"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=427840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}