{"id":439118,"date":"2023-07-02T15:56:04","date_gmt":"2023-07-02T19:56:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=439118"},"modified":"2023-07-02T15:56:04","modified_gmt":"2023-07-02T19:56:04","slug":"eric-gordon-inks-2-year-contract-with-suns","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/eric-gordon-inks-2-year-contract-with-suns\/","title":{"rendered":"Eric Gordon inks 2-year contract with Suns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eric Gordon signed a 2-year deal with a player option with the Phoenix Suns, the player\u2019s agents confirmed to ESPN.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Eric Gordon chose the Suns over &#8220;multiple contenders&#8221; and even turned down more money, per <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ShamsCharania?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@ShamsCharania<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/JPKHIFJsKI\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/JPKHIFJsKI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Bleacher Report (@BleacherReport) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BleacherReport\/status\/1675588626644697088?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 2, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Eric became a free agent after LA Clippers declined to guarantee his 21 million dollar deal a few days ago. The Clippers saved over 100 million dollars on tax bills with that move.<\/p>\n<p>The franchise from L.A. sent Luke Kennard, John Wall, and a protected pick swap for Eric and 3 feature 2<sup>nd<\/sup> round picks in February.<\/p>\n<p>Gordon scored 11 points per game as he shot over 40% from the 3-point line in 22 regular-season matches during his 2<sup>nd<\/sup> period with the franchise from Los Angeles. He performed worse postseason as he notched 10 points per match with 34.5% from the 3-point line in his team elimination in the 1<sup>st<\/sup> round of the Western Conference playoffs against the Suns.<\/p>\n<p>Eric will now join Phoenix and will have the chance to play with Devin Booker, Kevin Durant, Bradley Beal, and Deandre Ayton.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Kevin Durant<br \/>\nDevin Booker<br \/>\nBradley Beal<br \/>\nDeandre Ayton<br \/>\nJosh Okogie<br \/>\nYuta Watanabe<br \/>\nCameron Payne<br \/>\nDamion Lee<br \/>\nKeita Bates-Diop<br \/>\nDrew Eubanks<br \/>\nChimezie Metu<br \/>\nEric Gordon<\/p>\n<p>Are the Suns cooking? ? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/RjBnqHTPyU\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/RjBnqHTPyU<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NBACentral (@TheNBACentral) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheNBACentral\/status\/1675584928237469697?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 2, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eric Gordon signed a 2-year deal with a player option with the Phoenix Suns, the player\u2019s agents confirmed to ESPN. Eric Gordon chose [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":439119,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[20177,17188,17837,17005],"news_category":[16706],"gn_keywords":[20178,18478,17557,1067],"acf":{"announce":"The player agreed to join Phoenix.","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\/439118"}],"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\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=439118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/439118\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/439119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439118"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=439118"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=439118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}