{"id":923706,"date":"2020-03-11T23:19:41","date_gmt":"2020-03-12T03:19:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=923706"},"modified":"2020-03-11T23:19:41","modified_gmt":"2020-03-12T03:19:41","slug":"nba-suspends-season-march-madness-going-without-fans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=923706","title":{"rendered":"NBA suspends season; March Madness going without fans"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/spanish-club-getafe-refuses-to-play-game-in-italy-amid-virus\/19005604\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/wwwcache.wralsportsfan.com\/asset\/basketball\/nba\/2020\/03\/11\/19006711\/media_f63dfe7898f346cdb1ae9a46e881b14d-DMID1-5m4m0tdvu-80x60.jpg\" alt=\"Virus_Outbreak_US_Sports_Basketball_63188\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>The NBA became the first major American sports league to suspend play because of the coronavirus pandemic, raising questions Wednesday night about the future of college basketball&#8217;s March Madness and other pro sports. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/spanish-club-getafe-refuses-to-play-game-in-italy-amid-virus\/19005604\/\" class=\"colorbox\" id=\"rssmi_more\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> &#8230;read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/spanish-club-getafe-refuses-to-play-game-in-italy-amid-virus\/19005604\/\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"NBA suspends season; March Madness going without fans\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WRAL<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NBA became the first major American sports league to suspend play because of the coronavirus pandemic, raising questions Wednesday night about the future of college&#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-923706","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\/923706","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=923706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/923706\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=923706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=923706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=923706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}