{"id":448779,"date":"2025-06-29T23:05:24","date_gmt":"2025-06-29T21:05:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=448779"},"modified":"2025-06-29T23:05:24","modified_gmt":"2025-06-29T21:05:24","slug":"new-york-knicks-ariel-hukporti-in-pj-tucker-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/new-york-knicks-ariel-hukporti-in-pj-tucker-out\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Knicks: Ariel Hukporti in, PJ Tucker out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Knicks will exercise their $1.9 million team option for centre Ariel Hukporti. SNY reports.<\/p>\n<p>Class of 2002, 214 centimetres with a German passport and from Togo, the Ludwigsburg youth sector product has played 28 games this NBA season with an 8.5&#8242; average.<\/p>\n<p>The franchise would instead waive the $3.4 million team option for veteran PJ Tucker, who has played only four games this season.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The Knicks are exercising the $1.9 million team option on center Ariel Hukporti, league sources tell SNY. New York is planning to decline the $3.4 million team option on veteran PJ Tucker, per league sources.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ian Begley (@IanBegley) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IanBegley\/status\/1939421557908025361?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 29, 2025<\/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>The New York Knicks will exercise their $1.9 million team option for centre Ariel Hukporti<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":372111,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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":[399],"tags":[],"rumors":[175],"typology":[183],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-448779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","rumors-nba-rumors","typology-rumors"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/02\/New-York-Knicks.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448779","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\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=448779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448779\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/372111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=448779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=448779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=448779"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=448779"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=448779"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=448779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}