{"id":45609,"date":"1999-07-14T01:43:56","date_gmt":"1999-07-14T01:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/pages\/dr-basketball-team-seeks-a-spot-in-sydney-olympics\/"},"modified":"1999-07-14T01:43:56","modified_gmt":"1999-07-14T01:43:56","slug":"dr-basketball-team-seeks-a-spot-in-sydney-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/1999\/07\/14\/dr-basketball-team-seeks-a-spot-in-sydney-olympics\/","title":{"rendered":"DR basketball team seeks a spot in Sydney Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two slots are available for the Americas in the Sydney Olympic Games, and the US dream team is expected to win one. The DR, Puerto Rico, Argentina, and Brazil hope to win the other. Now with the inclusion of NBA&#146;s Luis Felipe L?pez (Vancouver Grizzlies) and Mark Jackson (Indiana Pacers, the DR&#146;s chances at winning the slot are better. The games will be transmitted locally by Channel 4, and can also be seen on cable TV or by satellite. The Pre-Olympic Tournament is taking place in San Juan, Puerto Rico starting 14 July. The participating countries are Cuba, Argentina, Canada, Uruguay, US (Group A) and Venezuela, Dominicana, Panama, Puerto Rico and Brazil (Group B). The four teams with best win loss record pass on to a second round. First Round:  14 July 3 pm Cuba vs. Uruguay 5:30 pm Argentina vs. Canada 8 pm Puerto Rico vs. Venezuela 10:15 pm Brazil vs. DR15 July 3 pm Canada vs. Cuba 5:30 pm Venezuela vs. Brazil 8 pm Uruguay vs US 10:15 pm DR vs. Panama16 July  3 pm Panama vs. Venezuela 5:30 pm US vs. Panama 8 pm Brazil vs. Puerto Rico 10:15 pm Cuba vs. Argentina17 July 3 pm Canada vs. Uruguay 5:30 pm Argentina vs. US 8 pm Puerto Rico vs. Panama 10:15 pm Venezuela vs. DR18 July 3 pm Uruguay vs. Argentina 5:30 pm US vs. Cuba 8 pm DR vs. Puerto Rico 10:15 pm Panama vs. Brazil19 July\/22 July First four of each group Semifinals 24 July Best of four 25 July Finals<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two slots are available for the Americas in the Sydney Olympic Games, and the US dream team is expected to win one. The DR, Puerto Rico, Argentina, and Brazil hope to win the other. Now with the inclusion of NBA&#146;s Luis Felipe L?pez (Vancouver Grizzlies) and Mark Jackson (Indiana Pacers, the DR&#146;s chances at winning &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/1999\/07\/14\/dr-basketball-team-seeks-a-spot-in-sydney-olympics\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45609"}],"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=45609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45609\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}