{"id":44883,"date":"1998-12-21T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1998-12-21T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/93ed6045-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e"},"modified":"1998-12-21T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"1998-12-21T00:00:00","slug":"93ed6058-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/93ed6058-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e\/","title":{"rendered":"Nike halts payments to NBA players"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK\u2014 The other shoe has dropped on National Basketball Association players.<\/p>\n<p>Because of a lockout that has wiped out 322 games as of today, players are not receiving any salary.<\/p>\n<p>Now Nike has withheld payment to players under contract because of the work stoppage, The New York Times reported today.<\/p>\n<p>According to the newspaper, other shoe companies, like Reebok and Adidas, are paying their endorsers during the nearly 6-month-old lockout. But no other company has the number of clients that Nike has.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently a few of Nike&#8217;s signature clients, such as Michael Jordan and Penny Hardaway, continue receiving payments from the firm.<\/p>\n<p>Industry analysts told the Times that middle-range players earn approximately $100,000 a year from their Nike contracts, while an All-Star receives anywhere from $250,000 to $1 million a year.<\/p>\n<p>Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK\u2014 The other shoe has dropped on National Basketball Association players.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44883\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}