{"id":979473,"date":"2020-05-31T21:52:35","date_gmt":"2020-06-01T01:52:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=979473"},"modified":"2020-05-31T21:52:35","modified_gmt":"2020-06-01T01:52:35","slug":"in-staff-memo-nbas-adam-silver-addresses-racial-tensions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=979473","title":{"rendered":"In staff memo, NBA&#8217;s Adam Silver addresses racial tensions"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/in-staff-memo-nbas-adam-silver-addresses-racial-tensions\/19123423\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/wwwcache.wralsportsfan.com\/asset\/basketball\/nba\/2020\/05\/31\/19123424\/media_2c0e9879e6a94d3d83ed60c8bd57c8f4-DMID1-5n0uawdyr-80x60.jpg\" alt=\"NBA_All_Star_Game_Adam_Silver_49067\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>NBA Commissioner Adam Silver sent a memo to the league&#8217;s staffers Sunday night to address the latest racial tensions in the country, sparked most recently by the death last week of a black man who was in handcuffs when a Minneapolis police officer pressed his knee into his neck as he pleaded that he couldn&#8217;t breathe. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/in-staff-memo-nbas-adam-silver-addresses-racial-tensions\/19123423\/\" class=\"colorbox\" id=\"rssmi_more\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> &#8230;read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/in-staff-memo-nbas-adam-silver-addresses-racial-tensions\/19123423\/\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"In staff memo, NBA&#039;s Adam Silver addresses racial tensions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WRAL<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NBA Commissioner Adam Silver sent a memo to the league&#8217;s staffers Sunday night to address the latest racial tensions in the country, sparked most recently by&#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-979473","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\/979473","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=979473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979473\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=979473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=979473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=979473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}