{"id":479719,"date":"2024-03-06T15:07:09","date_gmt":"2024-03-06T19:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=479719"},"modified":"2024-03-06T15:07:09","modified_gmt":"2024-03-06T19:07:09","slug":"abu-dhabi-to-welcome-nuggets-celtics-friendlies","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/abu-dhabi-to-welcome-nuggets-celtics-friendlies\/","title":{"rendered":"Abu Dhabi to welcome Nuggets, Celtics friendlies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The reigning NBA champ, <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/denver-nuggets\/\">Denver Nuggets<\/a>, will play vs. the <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/boston-celtics\/\">Boston Celtics<\/a> in a pair of preseason matches in Abu Dhabi this October, National Basketball Association shared today.<\/p>\n<p>Denver, whose roster features 2-time MVP <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/player\/nikola-jokic\/\"><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/player\/nikola-jokic\/\">Nikola Jokic<\/a><\/a>, and Boston, led by 5-time All-Star <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/player\/jayson-tatum\/\">Jayson Tatum<\/a>, will play on October 4<sup>th<\/sup> and October 6<sup>th<\/sup> in the 3<sup>rd<\/sup> staging of the NBA Abu Dhabi Matches.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Boston Celtics take on the reigning 2023 NBA Champions Denver Nuggets <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NBAinAbuDhabi?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#NBAinAbuDhabi<\/a> \ud83c\udfc0<\/p>\n<p>Mark your calendars for the NBA Abu Dhabi Games 2024 presented by ADQ on October 4 and 6<\/p>\n<p>Register your interest via link in bio \ud83d\udc49<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/rHhM8g8b20\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/t.co\/rHhM8g8b20<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ni6EgGFUC0\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/ni6EgGFUC0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NBA Arabic (@NBAArabic) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NBAArabic\/status\/1765339101727694982?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March 6, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>In the past summer, the Nuggets defeated Miami to win their 1st NBA championship in the organization\u2019s 47-year history, while the Celtics were eliminated in the penultimate round of the postseason.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re happy to bring 2 of the best franchises in the NBA to Abu Dhabi in Boston and Denver,&#8221; Mark Tatum, the league\u2019s deputy commissioner, announced today.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There is a huge interest in the country to our product and across the Middle East, and we think these matches, as well as our year-round grassroots development and support engagement efforts, will have an incredible impact on the growth of the NBA in the region.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The reigning NBA champ, Denver Nuggets, will play vs. the Boston Celtics in a pair of preseason matches in Abu Dhabi this October, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":479720,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17837],"news_category":[16706],"gn_keywords":[22734,1067],"acf":{"announce":"The 2 NBA teams will play exhibition matches there.","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\/479719"}],"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\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=479719"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/479719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":479728,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/479719\/revisions\/479728"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/479720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479719"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=479719"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=479719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}