{"id":32726,"date":"2019-02-21T12:24:16","date_gmt":"2019-02-21T12:24:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=32726"},"modified":"2019-02-21T12:24:16","modified_gmt":"2019-02-21T12:24:16","slug":"next-lebron-james-injured-33-seconds-into-star-studded-match-after-nike-shoe-bursts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=32726","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Next LeBron James&#8217; injured 33 seconds into star-studded match after Nike shoe bursts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\"> (CNN)<\/cite>A star-studded crowd including former US President Barack Obama had gathered to watch hotly tipped college basketball player Zion Williamson, but the 18-year-old&#8217;s night unraveled after just 33 seconds when his Nike shoe fell apart. <\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Williamson, thought by many to be basketball&#8217;s brightest prospect since LeBron James, went down hard when his shoe split in half while planting his foot, forcing him off with a knee injury seconds into Duke University&#8217;s much-anticipated encounter against North Carolina. <\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Tickets for the local derby were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/ncaab\/acc\/2019\/02\/20\/duke-unc-tickets-super-bowl\/2925010002\/\" target=\"_blank\">reportedly available for over $3,000<\/a> and freshman forward Williamson &#8212; described by double NBA champion Kevin Durant  as a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/college-basketball\/news\/kevin-durant-on-dukes-zion-williamson-hes-a-once-in-a-generation-athlete\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;once-in-a-generation athlete&#8221;<\/a> &#8212; was a big reason for the inflated prices. <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNN)A star-studded crowd including former US President Barack Obama had gathered to watch hotly tipped college basketball player Zion Williamson, but the 18-year-old&#8217;s night unraveled after just 33 seconds when his Nike shoe fell apart. Williamson, thought by many to be basketball&#8217;s brightest prospect since LeBron James, went down hard when his shoe split in&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":32727,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32726\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/32727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}