{"id":657224,"date":"2018-06-29T10:57:59","date_gmt":"2018-06-29T14:57:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=657224"},"modified":"2018-06-29T10:57:59","modified_gmt":"2018-06-29T14:57:59","slug":"ap-sources-lebron-declines-option-becomes-free-agent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=657224","title":{"rendered":"AP sources: LeBron declines option, becomes free agent"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/ap-sources-lebron-declines-option-becomes-free-agent\/17664388\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/wwwcache.wralsportsfan.com\/asset\/basketball\/nba\/2018\/06\/28\/17663118\/media_b2d7a5e3780c435ab95cd72b73f634af-DMID1-5fa11g41e-80x60.jpg\" alt=\"Free_Agency_Players_Basketball_77061\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Two people familiar with the decision say LeBron James has told the Cleveland Cavaliers he is declining his $35.6 million contract option for next season and is a free agent. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/ap-sources-lebron-declines-option-becomes-free-agent\/17664388\/\" class=\"colorbox\" id=\"rssmi_more\"> &#8230;read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/ap-sources-lebron-declines-option-becomes-free-agent\/17664388\/\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"AP sources: LeBron declines option, becomes free agent\">WRAL<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two people familiar with the decision say LeBron James has told the Cleveland Cavaliers he is declining his $35.6 million contract option for next season&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-657224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-stories","wpcat-79-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657224","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=657224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657224\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=657224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=657224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=657224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}