{"id":429432,"date":"2023-03-08T11:37:42","date_gmt":"2023-03-08T16:37:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=429432"},"modified":"2023-03-08T11:37:42","modified_gmt":"2023-03-08T16:37:42","slug":"usa-basketball-to-play-two-exhibition-games-in-abu-dhabi-in-august","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/usa-basketball-to-play-two-exhibition-games-in-abu-dhabi-in-august\/","title":{"rendered":"USA Basketball to play two exhibition games in Abu Dhabi in August"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-185 p Component-p-0-2-175\">USA Basketball will play against Greece and Germany in Abu Dhabi this summer on its way to the World Cup in the Philippines, the federation announced on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The 2023 USA Basketball Showcase is headed to Abu Dhabi \ud83e\udd1d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dctabudhabi?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@dctabudhabi<\/a>  <\/p>\n<p>We&#39;ll see you in August, \ud83c\udde9\ud83c\uddea <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DBB_Basketball?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@DBB_Basketball<\/a> \ud83c\uddec\ud83c\uddf7 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HellenicBF?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@HellenicBF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; USA Basketball (@usabasketball) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/usabasketball\/status\/1633446277928337408?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March 8, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-185 p Component-p-0-2-175\">The U.S. will host the three-game series, and it\u2019ll mark the first time that the men\u2019s national team will play in the United Arab Emirates.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-185 p Component-p-0-2-175\">The Americans will play Greece on Aug. 18 and Germany on Aug. 20; Germany and Greece will play there on Aug. 19.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-185 p Component-p-0-2-175\">\u201cUSA Basketball is thrilled to work with DCT Abu Dhabi to bring the USA Basketball Showcase to Abu Dhabi,\u201d USA Basketball CEO Jim Tooley said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-185 p Component-p-0-2-175\">\u201cThis is the first time our men\u2019s national team will play in the UAE and we\u2019re excited to engage with fans from across the globe, while also offering our players and coaches memorable on- and off-court experiences.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>USA Basketball will play against Greece and Germany in Abu Dhabi this summer on its way to the World Cup in the Philippines, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":429433,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[18045],"news_category":[16706],"gn_keywords":[],"acf":{"announce":"It'll be the first time that the men\u2019s national team will play in the United Arab Emirates.","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/429432"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=429432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/429432\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/429433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429432"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=429432"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=429432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}