{"id":484780,"date":"2024-06-30T17:52:42","date_gmt":"2024-06-30T21:52:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=484780"},"modified":"2024-06-30T17:52:42","modified_gmt":"2024-06-30T21:52:42","slug":"toppin-to-sign-4-year-60-million-dollar-deal-with-pacers","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/toppin-to-sign-4-year-60-million-dollar-deal-with-pacers\/","title":{"rendered":"Toppin to sign 4-year, 60 million dollar deal with Pacers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Restricted free agent Obi Toppin will ink a 4-year, 60 million dollar deal to remain with the <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/indiana-pacers\/\">Indiana Pacers<\/a>. Obi emerged as a top bench contributor for the East Conference finalists.<\/p>\n<p>He had a career season in his debut campaign with Indiana, averaging over 10 points on 57.3% shooting from the field in 21 minutes per match.<\/p>\n<p>Obi fits perfectly with the Pacers\u2019 high-powered offense and has become an elite play-finisher. Toppin had 101 dunks last campaign and shot over 40% from the 3-point line as that was his career best.<\/p>\n<p>Indiana acquired Obi from the NY Knicks in last offseason for a pair of 2<sup>nd<\/sup>-round selections. Knicks selected Toppin with the 8<sup>th<\/sup> overall selection 4 years ago but New York decided after 3 seasons with the team that he doesn\u2019t fit in the plans for the future.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Obi Toppin this playoffs:<\/p>\n<p>10.9 PPG<br \/>4.4 RPG<br \/>63.4 TS%<br \/>20.2 MIN<\/p>\n<p>Four more years.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/muGfAVMlXq\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/t.co\/muGfAVMlXq<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; PacersMuse (@pacersmuse) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/pacersmuse\/status\/1807472548516671623?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">June 30, 2024<\/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>Restricted free agent Obi Toppin will ink a 4-year, 60 million dollar deal to remain with the Indiana Pacers. Obi emerged as a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":484781,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16971,17837],"news_category":[16706],"gn_keywords":[18386,23089,1067],"acf":{"announce":"Indiana will keep its top bench player with a new contract.","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\/484780"}],"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=484780"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/484780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":484782,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/484780\/revisions\/484782"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/484781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484780"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=484780"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=484780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}