{"id":35352,"date":"2017-03-21T16:47:15","date_gmt":"2017-03-21T22:47:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/?p=35352"},"modified":"2017-03-21T16:47:15","modified_gmt":"2017-03-21T22:47:15","slug":"omri-casspi-signs-with-nbas-minnesota-timberwolves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/omri-casspi-signs-with-nbas-minnesota-timberwolves\/","title":{"rendered":"Omri Casspi signs with NBA&#8217;s Minnesota Timberwolves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(JTA) \u2014 Omri Casspi, the first Israeli to play in the National Basketball Association, was signed as a free agent by the Minnesota Timberwolves, his third team in the last month and fifth since joining the NBA in 2009.<\/p>\n<p>Casspi was waived at the end of last month by the New Orleans Pelicans &#8212; his second stint with the team &#8212; after breaking his thumb in his debut with the club. Days earlier he had been involved in the trade from the Sacramento Kings that sent All-Star DeMarcus Cousins to New Orleans.<\/p>\n<p>The Timberwolves, who are 4 1\/2 games back for the eighth and final playoff spot in the Western Conference with 13 games to play in the regular season, announced Casspi&#8217;s signing on Monday. The contract runs through the end of the season, according to reports.<\/p>\n<p>Casspi was waived at the end of last month by the New Orleans Pelicans &#8212; his second stint with the team &#8212; after breaking his thumb in his debut with the club. Days earlier he had been involved in the trade from the Sacramento Kings that sent All-Star DeMarcus Cousins to New Orleans.<\/p>\n<p>Casspi is averaging 6.1 points and 4.0 rebounds over 23 games with three teams this season and has career averages of 8.5 points and 4.2 rebounds over 486 career NBA games.<\/p>\n<p>The 6-9 forward joined the Kings as a first-round draft pick and played there for two years. He has also played for the Cleveland Cavaliers and Houston Rockets.<\/p>\n<p>Casspi was a member of the championship Maccabi Tel Aviv team in Israel before moving on to the NBA.<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"Tumblr\",\"Email\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Omri%20Casspi%20signs%20with%20NBA%27s%20Minnesota%20Timberwolves\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1491],"tags":[8790,8795,1961,8788,1958],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35352"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35352"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35353,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35352\/revisions\/35353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}