{"id":100667,"date":"2025-08-27T22:18:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T22:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/100667\/"},"modified":"2025-08-27T22:18:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T22:18:09","slug":"clippers-kawhi-leonard-learns-wing-chun-in-video-during-china-tour-amid-nba-offseason","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/100667\/","title":{"rendered":"Clippers&#8217; Kawhi Leonard Learns Wing Chun in Video During China Tour amid NBA Offseason"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Kawhi Leonard was kung fu fighting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">The Los Angeles Clippers star was given a lesson in Wing Chun during his time in China as part of his Asian tour this summer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Wing Chun is a Chinese martial art and a form of Southern Chinese kung fu.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">It wasn&#8217;t the only cultural crossover Leonard undertook during his time in the country. He also learned how to say a few phrases in Mandarin, though there wasn&#8217;t a direct translation for &#8220;wet ball.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">There truly is only one Kawhi Leonard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kawhi Leonard was kung fu fighting. The Los Angeles Clippers star was given a lesson in Wing Chun&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":100668,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":["post-100667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100667\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}