{"id":1836508,"date":"2024-02-02T22:36:19","date_gmt":"2024-02-03T03:36:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1836508"},"modified":"2024-02-02T23:08:09","modified_gmt":"2024-02-03T04:08:09","slug":"unc-player-womens-basketball-staffers-say-they-heard-racial-slur-at-nc-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1836508","title":{"rendered":"UNC player, women&#8217;s basketball staffers say they heard racial slur at NC State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UNC Athletics sent a statement on the incident to WRAL, which says, \u201cWe have spoken with officials at NC State many times since last night\u2019s game, as well as student-athletes and staff from our women\u2019s basketball program. We appreciate NC State\u2019s diligence in looking into the matter. There is no room for hateful speech in sports.&#8221; The comment was directed at a black UNC player, according to a source. Odd in that both teams are majority black. This story gives no specifics or hints as to what was said. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/a-racial-slur-was-allegedly-directed-towards-a-unc-player-thursday-night-at-reynolds-coliseum\/21265605\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Please click here for more<\/a>. A source told Tar Heel Tribune that some N.C. State students called the black player a &#8220;coon.&#8221; For more on that, <a href=\"https:\/\/tarheeltribune.com\/2024\/02\/02\/racial-slur-allegedly-directed-at-black-unc-player-before-womens-game-at-n-c-state-according-to-source\/?r=tht\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">please click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UNC Athletics sent a statement on the incident to WRAL, which says, \u201cWe have spoken with officials at NC State many times since last night\u2019s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1836509,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1836508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured-stories","category-north-carolina-tar-heels","wpcat-79-id","wpcat-80-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1836508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1836508"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1836508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1836513,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1836508\/revisions\/1836513"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1836509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1836508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1836508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1836508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}