{"id":915776,"date":"2026-09-30T21:22:16","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T21:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/915776\/"},"modified":"2026-09-30T21:22:16","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T21:22:16","slug":"longtime-nbaer-dangelo-russell-signs-with-chinas-shanghai-sharks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/915776\/","title":{"rendered":"Longtime NBAer D&#8217;Angelo Russell signs with China&#8217;s Shanghai Sharks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The longtime NBAer signed with the Chinese Basketball Association&#8217;s Shanghai Sharks, the league <a href=\"http:\/\/Longtime NBAer D&#039;Angelo Russell signs with China&#039;s Shanghai Sharks\" rel=\"nofollow\">announced<\/a> on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Russell, 30, was waived by the Memphis Grizzlies earlier in September ahead of training camp.<\/p>\n<p>The No. 2 overall pick in the 2015 NBA draft by the Los Angeles Lakers, Russell landed in Memphis when he was included by Washington in a six-team, 11-player trade in July. <\/p>\n<p>Russell has played in 655 games over 11 NBA seasons with Los Angeles, Brooklyn, Golden State, Minnesota and Dallas.<\/p>\n<p>He scored 17 points per game while adding 5.6 assists and shooting 36.3 per cent from three-point range for his career.<\/p>\n<p>Russell will join fellow ex-NBAer Hassan Whiteside in Shanghai.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;with files from The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The longtime NBAer signed with the Chinese Basketball Association&#8217;s Shanghai Sharks, the league announced on Wednesday. Russell, 30,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":915777,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-915776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=915776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915776\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/915777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=915776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=915776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=915776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}