{"id":388057,"date":"2016-02-18T12:40:57","date_gmt":"2016-02-18T17:40:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/?p=388057"},"modified":"2016-02-18T12:41:59","modified_gmt":"2016-02-18T17:41:59","slug":"pistons-acquire-donatas-motiejunas-marcus-thornton-for-joel-anthony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/archives\/pistons-acquire-donatas-motiejunas-marcus-thornton-for-joel-anthony\/","title":{"rendered":"Pistons Acquire Donatas Motiejunas, Marcus Thornton For Joel Anthony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Pistons pulled off their second deadline deal of the week on Thursday, acquiring Donatas Motiejunas and Marcus Thornton from the Rockets for Joel Anthony and a 2016 first-round pick. The pick is top-8 protected.<\/p>\n<p>Per Woj and Windhorst:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Houston has traded Donatas Motiejunas and Marcus Thornton to the Detroit Pistons, league sources tell @TheVertical<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wojespn\/status\/700369396770979841?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 18, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">In deal, Detroit will send Joel Anthony and a protected 2016 first-round pick to the Rockets, league sources tell @TheVertical<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wojespn\/status\/700369733426814976?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 18, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Pick Detroit sending the Rockets is top 8 protected this year and then top 10 protected next 2 years.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Brian Windhorst (@WindhorstESPN) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WindhorstESPN\/status\/700372904475828225?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 18, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED:<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/nba\/brandon-jennings-ersan-ilyasova-for-tobias-harris\/\">Pistons Trade Brandon Jennings, Ersan Ilyasova For Tobias Harris<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pistons pulled off their second deadline deal of the week on Thursday, acquiring Donatas Motiejunas and Marcus Thornton from the Rockets for Joel Anthony and a 2016 first-round pick. The pick is top-8 protected. Per Woj and Windhorst: Houston has traded Donatas Motiejunas and Marcus Thornton to the Detroit Pistons, league sources tell @TheVertical [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":112,"featured_media":388062,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2075,2832,1182],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-388057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archives","tag-donatas-motiejunas","tag-joel-anthony","tag-marcus-thornton"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/112"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=388057"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":388066,"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388057\/revisions\/388066"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/388062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388057"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=388057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}