{"id":33215,"date":"2025-08-07T21:06:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T21:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/nba-great-britains-amari-williams-drafted-by-boston-celtics-2\/"},"modified":"2025-08-07T21:06:02","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T21:06:02","slug":"nba-great-britains-amari-williams-drafted-by-boston-celtics-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/nba-great-britains-amari-williams-drafted-by-boston-celtics-2\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA: Great Britain&#8217;s Amari Williams drafted by Boston Celtics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The first British-born player to feature in the NBA was Chris Harris, who represented St. Louis Hawks and Rochester Royals in the 1955-56 season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">San Antonio Spurs&#8217; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/basketball\/articles\/c79ng4p4dz2o\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">Jeremy Sochan<\/a> was born in the United States but raised in England and played for multiple English sides, most notably Southampton-based Solent Kestrels.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He is classed as a British player by the NBA, despite playing internationally for Poland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Williams&#8217; arrival adds some much needed front-court depth to the Celtics, who are the most successful team in NBA history having won a record 18 championships. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He is the second player to join the team in the 2025 draft after Spanish wing Hugo Gonzalez, who was selected from Real Madrid as the number 28 pick in the first round on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Basketball is one of the fastest growing sports in the UK and is the second most popular team sport, with more than 1.5m people playing on a weekly basis.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/basketball\/articles\/c4ge869dlxwo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first British-born player to feature in the NBA was Chris Harris, who represented St. Louis Hawks and Rochester Royals in the 1955-56 season. San Antonio Spurs&#8217; Jeremy Sochan was born in the United States but raised in England and played for multiple English sides, most notably Southampton-based Solent Kestrels. He is classed as a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33216,"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\/33215"}],"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=33215"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33217,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33215\/revisions\/33217"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}