{"id":14844,"date":"2018-07-21T17:45:13","date_gmt":"2018-07-21T21:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwosonnba.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/?p=14844"},"modified":"2018-07-21T17:47:40","modified_gmt":"2018-07-21T21:47:40","slug":"alex-len-atlanta-hawks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/2018\/07\/21\/alex-len-atlanta-hawks\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Alex Len Signs With Atlanta Hawks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to reports, the <a href=\"https:\/\/lwosonnba.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/nba-teams\/atlanta-hawks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Atlanta Hawks<\/a> have signed unrestricted free agent center <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/l\/lenal01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alex Len<\/a><\/strong> to a contract worth $8.5 million over two years.<\/p>\n<p>Shams Charania of Yahoo Sports broke the news on Saturday:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Alex Len&#39;s new deal with the Atlanta Hawks will be for two years, $8.5M, league sources said. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/AI3O0gqura\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/AI3O0gqura<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ShamsCharania\/status\/1020784866621784072?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">July 21, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h1><strong>Atlanta Hawks Sign Alex Len to Two-Year Contract<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>Len&#8217;s contract will take him through the end of the 2019-20 season.<\/p>\n<p>Len averaged 8.5 points, 6.5 rebounds, and 1.2 assists per game last season for the <a href=\"https:\/\/lwosonnba.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/nba-teams\/phoenix-suns\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Phoenix Suns<\/a>. Both his nightly points and rebounds numbers increased from the previous season. In addition, Len shot seven percentage points better from the field compared to the 2016-17 season while playing almost the same number of minutes.<\/p>\n<p>The 24-year-old Len definitely improved over previous seasons, but his career averages of 7.2 points and 6.5 rebounds per game suggest that he has not played like a former lottery pick.<\/p>\n<p>Looking forward, Len will provide rim protection and efficient shooting in the paint as a solid role player off the bench for Atlanta. Len scored in double figures in five of his last seven games and produced a double-double of 16 points and 10 rebounds in his last game in a Suns uniform. The Hawks will need Len to build on the improvements he made last season and get even better in order to build on their young core next season.<\/p>\n<p>Len is going into his sixth season in the league and until this point, he&#8217;s played his entire career in the Phoenix, after being drafted fifth overall by the Suns in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo:<br \/>\n<a id=\"cEzT4IKFREt0mjaTvCRSNQ\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.ca\/detail\/857342428\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'cEzT4IKFREt0mjaTvCRSNQ',sig:'bgnMhh8yWvt2Mj7pIqVm2Cydu13SOs2h3opzEoDLlrM=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'857342428',caption: true ,tld:'ca',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Free agent center Alex Len has agreed to a contract with the Atlanta Hawks after spending the previous five seasons of his career with the Phoenix Suns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1675,"featured_media":16487,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1608,62,3],"tags":[46,251,65,96,297,280],"class_list":["post-14844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hawks","category-basketball","category-nba","category-news","tag-alex-len","tag-atlanta-hawks","tag-basketball","tag-nba","tag-nba-free-agency","tag-phoenix-suns"],"modified_by":"Lior Kozai (Managing Editor)","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1675"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14844\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}