{"id":166630,"date":"2021-10-19T08:12:31","date_gmt":"2021-10-19T12:12:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/wordpress\/?p=166630"},"modified":"2021-10-19T10:03:00","modified_gmt":"2021-10-19T14:03:00","slug":"three-dominicans-in-the-nba-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2021\/10\/19\/three-dominicans-in-the-nba-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Dominicans in the NBA 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Chris-Duarte-Diario-Libre.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-166694\" width=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Chris-Duarte-Diario-Libre.jpg 546w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Chris-Duarte-Diario-Libre-300x192.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 546px) 100vw, 546px\" \/><figcaption>Chris Duarte \/ Diario Libre<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Chris Duarte (born and raised in Puerto Plata) with the Indiana Pacers, Al Horford (born in Puerto Plata) with the Boston Celtics and Karl Anthony Towns Cruz (born in New Jersey) of the Minnesota Timberwolves are three top players Dominicans fans will be following in this 2021-2022 NBA season, Diario Libre reports. The games are aired on local TV at 7:30pm CDN Deportes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, Karl Anthony Towns says he would be game to play again with the National Basketball Team. Towns is New York-born and raised but is the son of a Dominican mother. s<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.diariolibre.com\/deportes\/baloncesto\/la-nba-abre-su-show-con-chris-duarte-en-el-menu-HO29415882\">Diario Libre<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/espndeportes.espn.com\/basquetbol\/nota\/_\/id\/2916059\/why-karl-anthony-towns-turned-down-usa-basketball-for-the-dominican-republic\">ESPN <\/a><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>19 October 2021<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Duarte (born and raised in Puerto Plata) with the Indiana Pacers, Al Horford (born in Puerto Plata) with the Boston Celtics and Karl Anthony Towns Cruz (born in New Jersey) of the Minnesota Timberwolves are three top players Dominicans fans will be following in this 2021-2022 NBA season, Diario Libre reports. The games are &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2021\/10\/19\/three-dominicans-in-the-nba-2021\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[290,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166630"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166630"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":166696,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166630\/revisions\/166696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}