{"id":186435,"date":"2020-11-30T14:06:19","date_gmt":"2020-11-30T13:06:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=186435"},"modified":"2020-11-30T14:06:19","modified_gmt":"2020-11-30T13:06:19","slug":"melbourne-united-ink-scotty-hopson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/melbourne-united-ink-scotty-hopson\/","title":{"rendered":"Melbourne United ink Scotty Hopson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Melbourne United are excited to announce the signing of star forward Scotty Hopson on a one-year deal.<\/p>\n<p>Hopson starred for the New Zealand Breakers last season, often taking charge of games and helping the Breakers to a number of wins almost single-handedly. Hopson was rewarded with a spot in the All-NBL Second Team plus an MVP nomination. He averaged 19.1 points, 5.9 rebounds and 4.7 assists per game, shooting 47% from the field.<\/p>\n<p>The 201cm Kentucky native has most recently been playing in the NBA G-League for Oklahoma City Blue, with the hopes of breaking into the NBA, but will return to the NBL with Melbourne United.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">SCOTTY STANDS UNITED.<br \/>We are pleased to announce that we have signed star American, Scotty Hopson for the 2021 NBL Season. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Shopson32?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Shopson32<\/a> averaged 19.1 points for the Breakers in NBL20, was rewarded a spot in the All-NBL Second Team and was nominated for league MVP. \u2070<br \/>More here \u2b07\ufe0f<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Melbourne United (@MelbUnitedHQ) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MelbUnitedHQ\/status\/1333274363555057666?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 30, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hopson starred for the New Zealand Breakers last season<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[389],"tags":[7018],"rumors":[407],"typology":[185],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-186435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australia","tag-melbourne-united-en","rumors-basket-rumors","typology-official"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186435\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186435"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=186435"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=186435"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=186435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}