{"id":15401,"date":"2018-07-01T00:46:42","date_gmt":"2018-07-01T04:46:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwosonnba.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/?p=15401"},"modified":"2018-07-01T01:03:22","modified_gmt":"2018-07-01T05:03:22","slug":"trevor-ariza-agrees-phoenix-suns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/2018\/07\/01\/trevor-ariza-agrees-phoenix-suns\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Trevor Ariza Agrees to Contract With Phoenix Suns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to reports, the Phoenix Suns have agreed to sign unrestricted free agent small forward\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/a\/arizatr01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Trevor Ariza<\/a><\/strong> to a one-year contract worth $15 million. The contract cannot officially be signed until the end of the NBA\u2019s moratorium period on July 7th.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Shams Charania<\/strong> of Yahoo Sports broke the news:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Houston free agent Trevor Ariza has agreed to a one-year, $15M deal with the Phoenix Suns, league sources tell Yahoo.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ShamsCharania\/status\/1013281263518732288?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">July 1, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h1><strong>Phoenix Suns Sign Trevor Ariza to One-Year Contract<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>Ariza&#8217;s\u00a0contract will take him through the end of the 2018-19 season.<\/p>\n<p>Ariza averaged 11.7 points, 1.6 assists, and 4.4 rebounds per game last season for the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonprobasketball.com\/nba-teams\/houston-rockets\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Houston Rockets<\/a>. His point average is identical to last season. The only difference, Ariza averaged fewer minutes and played fewer games. He played his fewest amount of NBA games this season since the 12-13 season. That was due to a mix of suspensions and injury. Playing just 67 games after averaging 80 the past four seasons. He disappeared\u00a0this postseason for the Rockets, as all of his numbers went down. Most notably\u00a0an abysmal percentage shot from behind the arc.<\/p>\n<p>Ariza has never been a star player in his career, but a good role player. His offensive streakiness leaves much to be desired, however, when his game is on, he&#8217;s one of the most dangerous shooters in the league. Looking forward, he looks to provide veteran leadership in Phoenix. Ariza&#8217;s value is important as he can produce as a member of the starting lineup, or off the bench. He has a defensive presence\u00a0on the floor that sometimes goes unnoticed, Ariza is able to spread the floor and make others around him better.<\/p>\n<p>Ariza is going into his 14th season in the league. A journeyman player who has put on many jerseys during his NBA career. Not much was expected when he was drafted 43rd overall by New York in 2004. However, he has had a very solid career.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo:<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"F6sdpLgJQGV9Ropj7FD34w\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.ca\/detail\/451435872\" 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:'F6sdpLgJQGV9Ropj7FD34w',sig:'UpwFeKbUGVCNioDZA7sAz7TRLuGC3SP9fc5tT1CQr0g=',w:'594px',h:'475px',items:'451435872',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>According to reports, free agent forward Trevor Ariza has agreed to a contract with the Phoenix Suns for one year and $15 milion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2271,"featured_media":16053,"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":[28,1608,31,62,3],"tags":[65,333,96,297,202,280,1084],"class_list":["post-15401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-suns","category-basketball","category-rockets","category-nba","category-news","tag-basketball","tag-houston-rockets","tag-nba","tag-nba-free-agency","tag-nba-news","tag-phoenix-suns","tag-trevor-ariza"],"modified_by":"Lior Kozai (Managing Editor)","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15401","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\/2271"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15401\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}