{"id":1740,"date":"2015-08-03T19:47:26","date_gmt":"2015-08-03T23:47:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.volnation.com\/freaknotes\/?p=1740"},"modified":"2016-12-20T15:17:28","modified_gmt":"2016-12-20T20:17:28","slug":"josh-richardson-signs-with-miami-heat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.volnation.com\/freaknotes\/2015\/08\/03\/josh-richardson-signs-with-miami-heat\/","title":{"rendered":"Josh Richardson signs with Miami Heat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Josh Richardson<\/strong> signed his contract with the Miami Heat on Monday, and could earn more than $2.5 million over the next three years, <a href=\"http:\/\/espn.go.com\/nba\/story\/_\/id\/13371244\/josh-richardson-signs-rookie-deal-miami-heat\">according to ESPN<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Richardson was the 40th pick in this year&#8217;s NBA Draft and averaged 11.8 points per game in the Heat summer leagues.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sun-sentinel.com\/sports\/miami-heat\/sfl-miami-heat-josh-richardson-080315-story.html\">According to the Sun Sentinel<\/a>, the contract is fully guaranteed for the first season, and partially guaranteed thereafter. At roughly $840,000 per year, Richardson is making about\u00a0what a player drafted at the end of the first round would earn.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I am now an NBA player. More importantly I am a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MiamiHEAT?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Miamiheat<\/a> player. Oh, and my new number is 0 \ud83d\udd25\ud83d\udd25 <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/LcVkefkt0g\">pic.twitter.com\/LcVkefkt0g<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Josu\u00e9lito (@J_Rich1) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/J_Rich1\/status\/628281341675704320?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 3, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Forum discussion: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.volnation.com\/forum\/tennessee-vols-basketball\/240884-josh-richardson-agrees-3-year-deal.html\"><strong>Josh Richardson agrees to three-year deal with Miami Heat<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Josh Richardson signed his contract with the Miami Heat on Monday, and could earn more than $2.5 million over the next three years, according to ESPN. Richardson was the 40th pick in this year&#8217;s NBA Draft and averaged 11.8 points per game in the Heat summer leagues. According to the Sun Sentinel, the contract is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_FSMCFIC_featured_image_caption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_nocaption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_hide":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[21],"tags":[185],"class_list":["post-1740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-former-tennessee-basketball-vols","tag-josh-richardson"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.volnation.com\/freaknotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.volnation.com\/freaknotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.volnation.com\/freaknotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.volnation.com\/freaknotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.volnation.com\/freaknotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1740"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.volnation.com\/freaknotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1742,"href":"https:\/\/www.volnation.com\/freaknotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1740\/revisions\/1742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.volnation.com\/freaknotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.volnation.com\/freaknotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.volnation.com\/freaknotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}