{"id":708342,"date":"2010-04-02T15:34:39","date_gmt":"2010-04-02T19:34:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/my.lakers.com\/blogs\/?p=16410"},"modified":"2010-04-02T15:34:39","modified_gmt":"2010-04-02T19:34:39","slug":"kobe-bryant-signs-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/708342","title":{"rendered":"Kobe Bryant Signs Extension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/my.lakers.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/blog_100402kobebryant.jpg?resize=500%2C250\" alt=\"D070236021.JPG\" title=\"D070236021.JPG\" width=\"500\" height=\"250\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16414\" \/>Kobe Bryant, winner of four NBA championships, a Finals MVP and regular season MVP, will continue his illustrious career with the Los Angeles Lakers for the foreseeable future after signing a 3-year contract extension on Friday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are extremely pleased that we were able to reach an agreement and come to terms on the extension at this time,&#8221; said Lakers General Manager Mitch Kupchak. &#8220;Kobe has been a cornerstone of the Lakers for well over a decade, helping to lead us to four NBA Championships and in the process developing into one of the greatest players in basketball history.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For complete details, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nba.com\/lakers\/news\/100402_kobe_extension.html\" >head over to Lakers.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kobe Bryant, winner of four NBA championships, a Finals MVP and regular season MVP, will continue his illustrious career with the Los Angeles Lakers for the foreseeable future after signing a 3-year contract extension on Friday afternoon. &#8220;We are extremely pleased that we were able to reach an agreement and come to terms on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2645,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-708342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2YgS","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2645"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=708342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708342\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=708342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=708342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=708342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}