{"id":17521,"date":"2020-11-24T14:54:05","date_gmt":"2020-11-24T09:24:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=75693"},"modified":"2020-11-24T14:54:05","modified_gmt":"2020-11-24T09:24:05","slug":"nba-players-meet-pope-francis-to-discuss-social-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/nba\/nba-players-meet-pope-francis-to-discuss-social-issues\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA Players meet Pope Francis to discuss social issues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pope Francis hosted a few of the NBA players to discuss about social issues and the justice they can bring to these issues in a private meeting. Anthony Tolliver, Kyle Korver, Sterling Brown, Jonathan Isaac and Marco Belinelli were the 5 players who met the Pope. NBA executive director Michele Roberts was also present for the meeting in Vatican.<\/p>\n<p>According to ESPN, An assistant to Pope Francis reached out to the players\u2019 association last week demonstrating the Pope wanted to learn more about how players had recently brought attention to the ongoing social issues.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/PopeFrancis?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#PopeFrancis<\/a> met today with reps of the NBA Players Association to talk about their efforts to promote racial equality, social justice & to feed the poor. (\ud83d\udcf7 Vatican Media) <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fGhoMJzQPl\">pic.twitter.com\/fGhoMJzQPl<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Cindy Wooden (@Cindy_Wooden) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Cindy_Wooden\/status\/1330864725559795714?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 23, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith the Pope\u2019s support and blessing, we are excited to head into this next season reinvigorated to keep pushing for change and bringing our communities together,\u201d mentioned Roberts, speaking about the meeting.<\/p>\n<p>Social issues like racism, police brutality have been highlighted ever since the passing of George Floyd. During the playoffs, a number of NBA players had a social messages like \u201cSay Their Names,\u201d \u201cEquality\u201d , \u201cEnough\u201d and \u201cBlack Lives Matter\u201d written on the back of their jerseys.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pope Francis hosted a few of the NBA players to discuss about social issues and the justice they can bring\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":38265,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[846,826,188,1029,1105],"class_list":["post-17521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","tag-anti-racism","tag-nba","tag-police-brutality","tag-pope-francis","tag-social-issues"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17521\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}