{"id":3188,"date":"2014-02-01T12:33:47","date_gmt":"2014-02-01T07:03:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/news\/2014\/02\/01\/houston-comets-sold-to-furniture-magnate-hilton-koch\/"},"modified":"2014-02-01T12:33:47","modified_gmt":"2014-02-01T07:03:47","slug":"houston-comets-sold-to-furniture-magnate-hilton-koch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/houston-comets-sold-to-furniture-magnate-hilton-koch\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston Comets sold to furniture magnate Hilton Koch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HOUSTON &#8212; Furniture dealer Hilton Koch bought the Houston Comets, making the four-time WNBA                         <!--adsense--><br \/>\n\t\t <!--more--><br \/>\nchampions the league&#8217;s fifth independently owned franchise in the women&#8217;s basketball league.<\/p>\n<p> The WNBA Board of Governors approved the sale Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p> The Comets were previously owned by Leslie Alexander, who also owns the NBA&#8217;s Houston Rockets. Alexander sold the WNBA franchise so he could focus solely on the Rockets, said Rockets CEO Tad Brown.<\/p>\n<p> Brown would not disclose how much Koch paid for the franchise. In December, the Los Angeles Sparks were sold for $10 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HOUSTON &#8212; Furniture dealer Hilton Koch bought the Houston Comets, making the four-time WNBA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-furniture-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3188\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}