{"id":458331,"date":"2023-09-06T12:33:04","date_gmt":"2023-09-06T08:33:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=458331"},"modified":"2023-09-06T12:33:32","modified_gmt":"2023-09-06T08:33:32","slug":"christian-wood-signs-1-1-contract-with-lakers","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/christian-wood-signs-1-1-contract-with-lakers\/","title":{"rendered":"Christian Wood signs 1+1 contract with Lakers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Free agent Christian Wood has signed a 1+1-year contract with the <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/los-angeles-lakers\/\">Los Angeles Lakers<\/a>, the team announced.<\/p>\n<p>The contract of the 27-year-old basketball player is worth a total of 5.7 million dollars, and the player himself will be able to choose whether to extend it after the end of the first season or become a free agent again.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s always been my dream to be a Laker,&#8221; Wood shared on social media.<\/p>\n<p>The upcoming season will be the center&#8217;s eighth in the NBA. His last team was the <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/dallas-mavericks\/\">Dallas Mavericks<\/a>, for whom he averaged 16.6 points and 7.3 rebounds per game. His strongest season was in 2020\/21, when he registered 21 points and 9.6 rebounds with the Houston Rockets team.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Welcome to the Lakers, Christian Wood! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Ddf6BHWdaD\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/Ddf6BHWdaD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ballislife.com (@Ballislife) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Ballislife\/status\/1699265182004904314?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">September 6, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>In his career, Wood also played for the Philadelphia 76ers, Charlotte Hornets, Milwaukee Bucks, New Orleans Pelicans, <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/detroit-pistons\/\">Detroit Pistons<\/a>, Houston and Dallas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Free agent Christian Wood has signed a 1+1-year contract with the Los Angeles Lakers, the team announced. The contract of the 27-year-old basketball [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":458342,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16970],"news_category":[16706],"gn_keywords":[21254,17645],"acf":{"announce":"The center was a free agent this summer","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\/458331"}],"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=458331"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/458331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":458347,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/458331\/revisions\/458347"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/458342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458331"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=458331"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=458331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}