{"id":439390,"date":"2023-07-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-07-07T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.7sport.net\/en\/news-single\/wembanyama-explains-britney-spears-controversy-in-las-vegas\/"},"modified":"2023-07-07T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-07-07T04:00:00","slug":"wembanyama-explains-britney-spears-controversy-in-las-vegas","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/wembanyama-explains-britney-spears-controversy-in-las-vegas\/","title":{"rendered":"Wembanyama explains Britney Spears controversy in Las Vegas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>San Antonio Spurs rookie Victor Wembanyama explained on Thursday that he believes Britney Spears grabbed him from behind as he was walking into a restaurant at a Las Vegas casino. Because of that his security pushed the pop star away.<\/p>\n<p>Wembanyama said he wasn\u2019t told that Spears was the person who grabbed him until hours later, and he never actually saw her.<\/p>\n<p>Spears, who filed a report with Las Vegas police, said in posts on Twitter and Instagram that she only \u201ctapped him on the shoulder to get his attention. \u201dShe said she had recognized him earlier in the evening and when seeing the No. 1 pick in this year\u2019s NBA draft and she \u201cdecided to approach him and congratulate him on his success.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Victor Wembanyama addresses reports that Spurs security allegedly struck Britney Spears when she approached him Wednesday at a Las Vegas restaurant<\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CassidyHubbarth?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@CassidyHubbarth<\/a>)<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/YJ1gP9nXEd\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/YJ1gP9nXEd<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Bleacher Report (@BleacherReport) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BleacherReport\/status\/1677075829816438786?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 6, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>According to Spears, \u201cHis security then back handed me in the face without looking back, in front of a crowd. Nearly knocking me down and causing my glasses off my face.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSomething did happen, a little bit, when I was walking with some security from the team to some restaurant,\u201d Wembanyama said. \u201cWe were in the hall. There was a lot of people, so people were calling (at) me, obviously. There was one person who was calling me but we talked before with security.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>San Antonio Spurs rookie Victor Wembanyama explained on Thursday that he believes Britney Spears grabbed him from behind as he was walking into [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":439391,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17104,19413],"news_category":[16706,20292],"gn_keywords":[18132,19414],"acf":{"news_source":null,"link_picture":null,"announce":"The pop star filed a report against the security of the Spurs rookie","video":null},"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\/439390"}],"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\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=439390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/439390\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/439391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439390"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=439390"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=439390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}