{"id":428112,"date":"2023-03-01T17:03:22","date_gmt":"2023-03-01T22:03:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=428112"},"modified":"2023-03-01T15:10:55","modified_gmt":"2023-03-01T20:10:55","slug":"durant-eager-to-make-suns-debut-vs-hornets","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/durant-eager-to-make-suns-debut-vs-hornets\/","title":{"rendered":"Durant eager to make Suns debut vs. Hornets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kevin Durant joined a new team midway through the season for the first time in this 15-year career in NBA.<\/p>\n<p>13-time All-Star will makes his highly anticipated Phoenix Suns debut on Wednesday night against the Charlotte Hornets. It comes 20 days after Phoenix completed a blockbuster deal that sent Mikal Bridges, Cam Johnson and four first-round picks to the Brooklyn Nets, delivering shockwaves throughout the basketball world.<\/p>\n<p>This is Durant\u2019s fourth different team in seven seasons, but he doesn\u2019t feel like joining the Suns midseason will be a huge adjustment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have a lot of experience in the league, so the transition was a little easier than it would have been 10 years ago,\u201d Durant said on Tuesday. \u201cIt\u2019s a quick turnaround and everything happened so fast. But the game is the constant thing.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kevin Durant joined a new team midway through the season for the first time in this 15-year career in NBA. 13-time All-Star will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":428113,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16798,17837,17005],"news_category":[16706],"gn_keywords":[17880,17557,1067],"acf":{"announce":"13-time All-Star will take the court for the first time as a Sun ","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\/428112"}],"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\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=428112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/428112\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/428113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428112"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=428112"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=428112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}