{"id":108,"date":"2010-07-28T11:18:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-28T18:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsports.us\/?p=108"},"modified":"2011-01-15T15:03:56","modified_gmt":"2011-01-15T20:03:56","slug":"mccants-turns-down-chance-to-play-in-nba-to-be-with-ailing-mother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=108","title":{"rendered":"McCants turns down chance to play in NBA to be with ailing mother"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former UNC basketball player Rashad McCants, who did not play in the NBA last season, had a chance to play for the Cleveland Cavaliers summer league team this month but chose instead to come to Raleigh to be with his ailing mother, a breast cancer survivor.<\/p>\n<p>McCants, who averaged 15 points a game in 2008 for the Minnesota Timberwolves, didn&#8217;t play as much in 2009 and was traded to Sacramento which eventually refused to re-sign him. He sat out last season.<\/p>\n<p>McCants, a native of Asheville, is only 26 and seemingly had an NBA-type game even when in college. He was considered moody at UNC but he hasn&#8217;t gotten in any trouble since turning professional.<\/p>\n<p>He says that playing in Europe is not an option. Eventhough his surly reputation remains, hopefully he&#8217;ll get another chance with the Cavaliers or maybe the Celtics (he&#8217;s friends with Kevin Garnett).<\/p>\n<p>An article on McCants titled &#8220;Born to be hated, dying to be loved&#8221; appears in the most recent <a href=\"http:\/\/insider.espn.go.com\/nba\/insider\/news\/story?id=5383373&#038;action=login&#038;appRedirect=http%3a%2f%2finsider.espn.go.com%2fnba%2finsider%2fnews%2fstory%3fid%3d5383373\" target=\"_blank\">ESPN The Magazine<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former UNC basketball player Rashad McCants, who did not play in the NBA last season, had a chance to play for the Cleveland Cavaliers summer&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=108"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":776,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108\/revisions\/776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}