{"id":1940,"date":"2022-09-21T18:48:16","date_gmt":"2022-09-21T18:48:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/anthony-edwards-nba-fine-minnesota-timberwolves-guard-for-homophobic-language\/"},"modified":"2022-09-21T18:48:17","modified_gmt":"2022-09-21T18:48:17","slug":"anthony-edwards-nba-fine-minnesota-timberwolves-guard-for-homophobic-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/anthony-edwards-nba-fine-minnesota-timberwolves-guard-for-homophobic-language\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthony Edwards: NBA fine Minnesota Timberwolves guard for homophobic language"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-reactid=\".10ex5s50kys.0.0.0.1\">\n<figure class=\"gs-u-mt0 gs-u-mb-alt+ story-body__media story-body__media--figure qa-story-body-media story-body__media--lead\" data-reactid=\".10ex5s50kys.0.0.0.1.$image-0\"><span class=\"gs-u-display-block story-body__media\" data-reactid=\".10ex5s50kys.0.0.0.1.$image-0.0\"><span class=\"gs-u-display-block gs-o-responsive-image\" style=\"padding-bottom:56.25%;\" data-reactid=\".10ex5s50kys.0.0.0.1.$image-0.0.0\"><\/span><\/span><figcaption class=\"gel-brevier gs-u-ph+ gs-u-pv-alt story-body__media__caption story-body__media__caption--image\" data-reactid=\".10ex5s50kys.0.0.0.1.$image-0.1\">Edwards was the number one pick in the 2020 NBA draft<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p role=\"introduction\" class=\"qa-introduction gel-pica-bold\" data-reactid=\".10ex5s50kys.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-1\"><span data-reactid=\".10ex5s50kys.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-1.0\">Minnesota Timberwolves guard Anthony Edwards has been fined $40,000 (\u00a331,100) for using homophobic language in a social media post.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-reactid=\".10ex5s50kys.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-3\"><span data-reactid=\".10ex5s50kys.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-3.0\">Edwards later deleted the video and issued an apology.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-reactid=\".10ex5s50kys.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-4\"><span data-reactid=\".10ex5s50kys.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-4.0\">&#8220;What I said was immature, hurtful, and disrespectful, and I&#8217;m incredibly sorry,&#8221; <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/theantedwards_\/status\/1569043807085236224\" class=\"story-body__external-link\" title=\"\" data-reactid=\".10ex5s50kys.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-4.$link-2\"><span data-reactid=\".10ex5s50kys.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-4.$link-2.0\">he tweeted.<\/span><span class=\"gs-u-ml- gel-icon\" style=\"height:15px;width:15px;\" data-reactid=\".10ex5s50kys.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-4.$link-2.1\"><svg viewbox=\"0 0 32 32\" data-reactid=\".10ex5s50kys.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-4.$link-2.1.0\"><title data-reactid=\".10ex5s50kys.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-4.$link-2.1.0.0\">external-link<\/title><path d=\"M12 0v5h11.5l-5 5H0v22h22V17.5l-2 2V30H2V12h14.5l-7.8 7.7 3.6 3.6L27 8.5V20h5V0H12z\" data-reactid=\".10ex5s50kys.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-4.$link-2.1.0.1\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-reactid=\".10ex5s50kys.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-5\"><span data-reactid=\".10ex5s50kys.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-5.0\">&#8220;It&#8217;s unacceptable for me or anyone to use that language in such a hurtful way, there&#8217;s no excuse for it, at all. I was raised better than that!&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/basketball\/62975906?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=KARANGA\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Edwards was the number one pick in the 2020 NBA draft Minnesota Timberwolves guard Anthony Edwards has been fined $40,000 (\u00a331,100) for using homophobic language in a social media post. Edwards later deleted the video and issued an apology. &#8220;What I said was immature, hurtful, and disrespectful, and I&#8217;m incredibly sorry,&#8221; he tweeted.external-link &#8220;It&#8217;s unacceptable [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1941,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1940"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1940"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1942,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1940\/revisions\/1942"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}