{"id":120,"date":"2014-03-31T18:00:02","date_gmt":"2014-03-31T18:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.larrymarshallsports.com\/?p=120"},"modified":"2014-04-28T21:15:42","modified_gmt":"2014-04-28T21:15:42","slug":"hard-work-does-pay-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.larrymarshallsports.com\/?p=120","title":{"rendered":"Hard work does pay off"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Congratulations to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nba.com\/cavaliers\/releases\/cavs-sign-hopson-140331\" target=\"_blank\">Scotty Hopson who signed a contract with the Cleveland Cavaliers<\/a>. Scotty is a 25 year-old 6&#8217;6&#8243; Shooting Guard, who started playing college basketball with Tennessee Volunteers from 2008 to 2011.\u00c2\u00a0 He went undrafted in 2011, but knowing he belonged playing basketball Scotty forged his way.\u00c2\u00a0 So for the past three years, Scotty played in the Greece (2011-2012), Israel (2012-2013), and Turkey (2013) Basketball Leagues. We here at Larry Marshall Sports will continue to spotlight Scotty and his accomplishments in the years to come.<\/div>\n<div>\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.larrymarshallsports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/scottylocker.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-121\" src=\"http:\/\/www.larrymarshallsports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/scottylocker-225x300.jpeg\" alt=\"Scotty Hopson's Locker with the Cleveland Cavaliers\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.larrymarshallsports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/scottylocker-225x300.jpeg 225w, http:\/\/www.larrymarshallsports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/scottylocker.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div>Godspeed to Scotty!<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to Scotty Hopson who signed a contract with the Cleveland Cavaliers. Scotty is a 25 year-old 6&#8217;6&#8243; Shooting Guard, who started playing college basketball with Tennessee Volunteers from 2008 to 2011.\u00c2\u00a0 He went undrafted in 2011, but knowing he belonged playing basketball Scotty forged his way.\u00c2\u00a0 So for the past three years, Scotty played &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.larrymarshallsports.com\/?p=120\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Hard work does pay off&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.larrymarshallsports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.larrymarshallsports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.larrymarshallsports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.larrymarshallsports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.larrymarshallsports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.larrymarshallsports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.larrymarshallsports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.larrymarshallsports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.larrymarshallsports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}