{"id":2459,"date":"2014-09-04T12:46:45","date_gmt":"2014-09-04T19:46:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/kentwood-high-grad-vandersloot-helps-chicago-sky-to-wnba-finals\/"},"modified":"2016-10-23T23:10:28","modified_gmt":"2016-10-24T06:10:28","slug":"kentwood-high-grad-vandersloot-helps-chicago-sky-to-wnba-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/sports\/kentwood-high-grad-vandersloot-helps-chicago-sky-to-wnba-finals\/","title":{"rendered":"Kentwood High grad Vandersloot helps Chicago Sky to WNBA Finals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>Courtney Vandersloot, a Kentwood High School graduate, helped lead the Chicago Sky to the <a title=\"ball\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wnba.com\/\" target=\"_self\">WNBA Finals<\/a> against the Phoenix Mercury.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Vandersloot had nine assists and seven points to help Chicago beat Indiana 75-62 on Wednesday to win the Eastern Conference title in three games. The Sky opens the best-of-five series against Phoenix on Sunday.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Vandersloot, the No. 3 overall draft pick by the Sky in 2011, averaged six assists and 7.2 points in 17 regular season games. She missed the month of July with a knee injury.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtney Vandersloot, a Kentwood High School graduate, helped lead the Chicago Sky to the WNBA Finals against the Phoenix Mercury.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":2460,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-2459","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\/2459"}],"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=2459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2459\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2459"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=2459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}