{"id":16601,"date":"2014-07-22T11:19:09","date_gmt":"2014-07-22T18:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/ex-kentwood-star-stuckey-signs-with-indiana-pacers\/"},"modified":"2016-10-21T15:30:34","modified_gmt":"2016-10-21T22:30:34","slug":"ex-kentwood-star-stuckey-signs-with-indiana-pacers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/sports\/ex-kentwood-star-stuckey-signs-with-indiana-pacers\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Kentwood star Stuckey signs with Indiana Pacers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>Rodney Stuckey, a former Kentwood High School star basketball player, signed a one-year NBA contract on Monday with the Indiana Pacers.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Stuckey, 28, played his first seven years with the Detroit Pistons after starring at Eastern Washington University in Cheney. He was a free agent after last season.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\u201cIt&#8217;s a fresh start and I&#8217;m excited for it,\u201d Stuckey said at a press conference after signing with the Pacers.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>The 6-foot-5 shooting guard averaged 13.9 points and just 2.1 assists per game last season. He is expected to contend for a starting spot with Indiana, which signed Stuckey and C.J. Miles but lost free agent Lance Stephenson to the Charlotte Hornets.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Stuckey helped lead Kentwood to the Class 4A state high school basketball title in 2004.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rodney Stuckey, a former Kentwood High School star basketball player, signed a one-year NBA contract on Monday with the Indiana Pacers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":16602,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-16601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16601"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16601\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16601"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=16601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}