{"id":439919,"date":"2023-07-16T14:45:03","date_gmt":"2023-07-16T18:45:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=439919"},"modified":"2023-07-16T14:46:33","modified_gmt":"2023-07-16T18:46:33","slug":"suns-sign-85-bol-bol-as-a-free-agent","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/suns-sign-85-bol-bol-as-a-free-agent\/","title":{"rendered":"Suns sign 8&#8217;5 Bol Bol as a free agent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Phoenix Suns signed free agent Bol Bol. The Sudanese is the son of former NBA basketball player Manute Bol, who was 8&#8217;5 feet tall.<\/p>\n<p>The 6-foot-3 Bol Bol last played for the Orlando Magic, where he averaged 9.1 points and 5.8 rebounds last season. A curious fact is that Bol&#8217;s wing span is 7&#8217;6 feet (92 inches).<\/p>\n<p>Phoenix&#8217;s last deal was with the San Antonio Spurs. The Suns sent guard Cameron Payne to the Spurs and the Texans will also receive a choice in the second round of the draft.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Bol Bol is signing a one-year deal with the Suns, per <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wojespn?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@wojespn<\/a> ? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/VhxvtnW7zq\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/VhxvtnW7zq<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Bleacher Report (@BleacherReport) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BleacherReport\/status\/1680603929992740866?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 16, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>By parting with the 28-year-old Payne, Phoenix will save $26.4 million in penalty fees and receive $6.5 million to use for other transfers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Phoenix Suns signed free agent Bol Bol. The Sudanese is the son of former NBA basketball player Manute Bol, who was 8&#8217;5 feet [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":439923,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[20270,17005],"news_category":[16706],"gn_keywords":[20446,17557],"acf":{"announce":"He's got 7'6 feet wing span - one of the largest in NBA","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\/439919"}],"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=439919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/439919\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/439923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439919"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=439919"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=439919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}