{"id":464886,"date":"2023-10-05T13:58:10","date_gmt":"2023-10-05T17:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=464886"},"modified":"2023-10-05T18:08:43","modified_gmt":"2023-10-05T22:08:43","slug":"joel-embiid-chose-usa-for-the-2024-paris-olympics","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/joel-embiid-chose-usa-for-the-2024-paris-olympics\/","title":{"rendered":"Joel Embiid chose USA for the 2024 Paris Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Philadelphia 76ers leading man Joel Embiid has made up his mind and decided he will play for the USA national basketball team in the upcoming 2024 Paris Olympics.<\/p>\n<p>The NBA MVP had a choice to make between France, Cameroon and the US as he had the right to play for either of the three countries.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Philadelphia 76ers and reigning NBA MVP Joel Embiid has decided to play Team USA in the 2024 Paris Olympics, sources tell <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheAthletic?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@TheAthletic<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Stadium?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@Stadium<\/a>. Embiid decided among USA, France and Cameroon.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ShamsCharania\/status\/1709959806696505388?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">October 5, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\nAt the end he will defend the USA colors and this way their team is shaping up to be a real danger, as the rumors are most of the NBA stars will join the line up including Steph Curry, Damian Lillard, Jimmy Butler and even LeBron James, who is still considering playing in the French capital.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Philadelphia 76ers leading man Joel Embiid has made up his mind and decided he will play for the USA national basketball team in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":464889,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[18356,16841,16840],"news_category":[16706,16715],"gn_keywords":[18357,18479,17913],"acf":{"announce":"The 76ers star will play for the US national team instead of France and Cameroon ","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\/464886"}],"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=464886"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/464886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":464890,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/464886\/revisions\/464890"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/464889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=464886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=464886"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=464886"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=464886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}