{"id":906182,"date":"2020-02-16T22:33:20","date_gmt":"2020-02-17T03:33:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=906182"},"modified":"2020-02-16T22:33:20","modified_gmt":"2020-02-17T03:33:20","slug":"all-star-weekend-as-expected-was-about-honoring-kobe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=906182","title":{"rendered":"All-Star weekend, as expected, was about honoring Kobe"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/all-star-weekend-as-expected-was-about-honoring-kobe\/18955975\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/wwwcache.wralsportsfan.com\/asset\/basketball\/nba\/2020\/02\/16\/18956472\/5e4a027e75e74-media_077344c512ef4e9c9457bfc338a63abd-DMID1-5lv6rc7fw-80x60.jpg\" alt=\"APTOPIX_NBA_All_Star_Game_Basketball_12139\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>It has become one of the NBA&#8217;s most revered traditions: On the morning of the NBA All-Star Game, the league pays tribute to retired players with what is called the Legends Brunch. It brings together about 3,000 guests, and every year a recent retiree with ties to the game&#8217;s host city is honored. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/all-star-weekend-as-expected-was-about-honoring-kobe\/18955975\/\" class=\"colorbox\" id=\"rssmi_more\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> &#8230;read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/all-star-weekend-as-expected-was-about-honoring-kobe\/18955975\/\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"All-Star weekend, as expected, was about honoring Kobe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WRAL<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has become one of the NBA&#8217;s most revered traditions: On the morning of the NBA All-Star Game, the league pays tribute to retired players with&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-906182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-stories","wpcat-79-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/906182","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=906182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/906182\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=906182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=906182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=906182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}