{"id":96,"date":"2011-09-12T05:26:08","date_gmt":"2011-09-12T05:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bettingbasketball.org\/betting-news\/?p=96"},"modified":"2012-03-22T20:13:58","modified_gmt":"2012-03-22T20:13:58","slug":"phoenix-suns-basketball-president-rick-welts-resigns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bettingbasketball.org\/betting-news\/96\/phoenix-suns-basketball-president-rick-welts-resigns\/","title":{"rendered":"Phoenix Suns Basketball President Rick Welts Resigns"},"content":{"rendered":"Rick Welts, the president and CEO of the NBA's Phoenix Suns has resigned. Rick is the only homosexual president of an NBA team, to the best of my knowledge anyway. NBA rumors and Rick's own statements point to the desire to be closer to his boyfriend(s) as the cause of this resignation:\r\n\u201cThe most important people in my personal life are not in Phoenix, and the Suns have been completely understanding and supportive of my request to leave in advance of the end of my contract.\u201d\r\n\r\n- Rick Welts\r\nWhat <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bettingbasketball.org\/betting-news\/96\/phoenix-suns-basketball-president-rick-welts-resigns\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more [...]<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rick Welts, the president and CEO of the NBA&#8217;s Phoenix Suns has resigned. Rick is the only homosexual president of an NBA team, to the best of my knowledge anyway. NBA rumors and Rick&#8217;s own statements point to the desire &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bettingbasketball.org\/betting-news\/96\/phoenix-suns-basketball-president-rick-welts-resigns\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[401,50,13,402],"class_list":["post-96","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-basketball-news","category-nba-news","tag-ceo","tag-kobe-bryant","tag-nba","tag-rick-welts"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bettingbasketball.org\/betting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bettingbasketball.org\/betting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bettingbasketball.org\/betting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bettingbasketball.org\/betting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bettingbasketball.org\/betting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.bettingbasketball.org\/betting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99,"href":"http:\/\/www.bettingbasketball.org\/betting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions\/99"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bettingbasketball.org\/betting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bettingbasketball.org\/betting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bettingbasketball.org\/betting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}