{"id":826548,"date":"2014-10-19T13:11:50","date_gmt":"2014-10-19T20:11:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cowbellkingdom.com\/?p=33180"},"modified":"2014-10-19T13:11:50","modified_gmt":"2014-10-19T20:11:50","slug":"sacramento-kings-pick-up-ben-mclemores-option","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/sacramento-kings-pick-up-ben-mclemores-option\/","title":{"rendered":"Sacramento Kings pick up Ben McLemore’s option"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Sacramento Kings announced Sunday the team has activated the 2015-16 option on Ben McLemore’s rookie contract.\u00a0 The 21-year-old wing will make an estimated $3.1 million next season according to ShamSports.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n McLemore is entering his second NBA season after being drafted seventh overall out of Kansas in 2013. The 6-foot-5 shooting guard averaged 8.8 points and 2.9 rebounds per game in 82 regular season appearances (55 starts) last year. He is slated to open this season as a\u00a0starter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" McLemore gets another year to develop<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[610259261],"tags":[34017575,14041,67926737,76563],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n