{"id":4355,"date":"2020-06-29T09:05:14","date_gmt":"2020-06-29T13:05:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hot979nc.com\/?p=4355"},"modified":"2020-06-29T09:05:14","modified_gmt":"2020-06-29T13:05:14","slug":"nba-set-to-allow-players-to-replace-last-name-on-jerseys-with-social-statements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hot979nc.com\/index.php\/2020\/06\/29\/nba-set-to-allow-players-to-replace-last-name-on-jerseys-with-social-statements\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA Set To Allow Players To Replace Last Name On Jerseys With Social Statements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some athletes and fans have been very vocal about their thoughts on the NBA&#8217;s return, claiming it would only be a distraction from what really needs to be focused on.<br \/>\nWell according to reports, the league is now working on a plan to allow players to make their voices heard, even while on the court.<br \/>\nShamsCharania, from <em>The Athletic&#8217;s<\/em>, revealed that the NBA and the NBA Players Association are currently working on a way to allow players to switch their last names on the back of their jersey to statements that support social movements.<br \/>\nPlayers in the league will be able to wear &#8220;Black Lives Matter&#8221; across the back of their jerseys for the first 12 games of the resumed season. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some athletes and fans have been very vocal about their thoughts on the NBA&#8217;s return, claiming it would only be a distraction from what really needs to be focused on. Well according to reports, the league is now working on a plan to allow players to make their voices heard, even while on the court. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hot979nc.com\/index.php\/2020\/06\/29\/nba-set-to-allow-players-to-replace-last-name-on-jerseys-with-social-statements\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;NBA Set To Allow Players To Replace Last Name On Jerseys With Social Statements&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4356,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[447,2098,2100,2099,714,2034,1767],"class_list":["post-4355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-black-lives-matter","tag-jersey","tag-last","tag-names","tag-nba","tag-return","tag-season","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hot979nc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hot979nc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hot979nc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hot979nc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hot979nc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4355"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hot979nc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4357,"href":"https:\/\/hot979nc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4355\/revisions\/4357"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hot979nc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hot979nc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hot979nc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hot979nc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}