{"id":765147,"date":"2019-05-14T21:21:37","date_gmt":"2019-05-15T01:21:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=765147"},"modified":"2019-05-14T21:21:37","modified_gmt":"2019-05-15T01:21:37","slug":"the-pelicans-win-the-nbas-draft-lottery-and-the-right-to-select-zion-williamson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=765147","title":{"rendered":"The Pelicans Win the NBA&#8217;s Draft Lottery and the Right to Select Zion Williamson"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/the-pelicans-win-the-nba-s-draft-lottery-and-the-right-to-select-zion-williamson\/18387540\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/wwwcache.wralsportsfan.com\/asset\/basketball\/nba\/2019\/05\/14\/18387522\/media_e8c63c3d5b474779bd95d94146d2c3f8-DMID1-5iste6nim-80x60.jpg\" alt=\"NBA_Draft_Lottery_Basketball_15682\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>After months of breathless anticipation &#8212; and a race to the bottom of the standings &#8212; the New Orleans Pelicans won the NBA&#8217;s draft lottery, earning the rights to the No. 1 pick in a draft that features one of the most highly touted consensus No. 1 picks in league history: Duke&#8217;s Zion Williamson. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/the-pelicans-win-the-nba-s-draft-lottery-and-the-right-to-select-zion-williamson\/18387540\/\" class=\"colorbox\" id=\"rssmi_more\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> &#8230;read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/the-pelicans-win-the-nba-s-draft-lottery-and-the-right-to-select-zion-williamson\/18387540\/\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"The Pelicans Win the NBA&#039;s Draft Lottery and the Right to Select Zion Williamson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WRAL<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After months of breathless anticipation &#8212; and a race to the bottom of the standings &#8212; the New Orleans Pelicans won the NBA&#8217;s draft lottery, earning&#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-765147","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\/765147","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=765147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765147\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=765147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=765147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=765147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}