{"id":465383,"date":"2023-10-10T11:30:31","date_gmt":"2023-10-10T15:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=465383"},"modified":"2023-10-10T11:30:31","modified_gmt":"2023-10-10T15:30:31","slug":"embiids-decision-to-represent-usa-very-disappointing-for-cameroon","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/embiids-decision-to-represent-usa-very-disappointing-for-cameroon\/","title":{"rendered":"Embiid&#8217;s decision to represent USA &#8216;very disappointing&#8217; for Cameroon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joel Embiid has made his mind to play for the USA in the upcoming Olympic Games instead of his home Cameroon, which has left a painful taste throughout the whole Africa.<\/p>\n<p>The 29-year-old, who was voted as the MVP of the NBA season, announced via social media that he will represent the US in the Olympic Games in Paris next year.<\/p>\n<p>Cameroon were hoping the Philadelphia center would prioritize his home country, while France also had an ambition of acquiring him as Embiid received a citizenship there last year.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s annoying because many people thought he would choose Cameroon\u201d a representative at the Cameroon Basketball Federation (Fecabasket) said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Embiid&#8217;s choice was legitimate and the reaction of Cameroonians, who are annoyed, is legitimate at the same time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Embiid explains his decision to join Team USA in the 2024 Olympics \u2764\ufe0f<\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JoelEmbiid?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@JoelEmbiid<\/a>) <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/cRtBC4DVBd\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/cRtBC4DVBd<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Bleacher Report (@BleacherReport) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BleacherReport\/status\/1710071821247062304?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><\/p>\n<p>Embiid was born in Yaounde but was being heavily courted after rising to the top of the NBA. When making the announcement on Friday, he said that family had played a large part in his decision.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joel Embiid has made his mind to play for the USA in the upcoming Olympic Games instead of his home Cameroon, which has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":432694,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[18356,16841],"news_category":[16706],"gn_keywords":[18357,18479],"acf":{"announce":"The 76ers' starlet has opted to play for the US rather than his home country","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\/465383"}],"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=465383"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/465383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":465384,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/465383\/revisions\/465384"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/432694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465383"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=465383"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=465383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}