{"id":97630,"date":"2025-08-26T17:29:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T17:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/97630\/"},"modified":"2025-08-26T17:29:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T17:29:10","slug":"david-jones-garcia-suspended-after-brawl-with-argentina-apologizes-to-spurs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/97630\/","title":{"rendered":"David Jones-Garcia suspended after brawl with Argentina, apologizes to Spurs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">Violence is never the answer. At the end of the game things got out of control after an Argentinian player struck me and one of my teammates received a racist insult. Adrenaline took over, but I take responsibility for my actions. I want to apologize to everyone \u2014 to my country, to FIBA, which organized a great tournament, to the San Antonio Spurs, which expect more from me as a professional, and to the Argentinian people.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">As Latinos, we should support each other, grow together and keep promoting the game we love. I let my emotions get the best of me, but experiences like this one help me grow and strengthen my emotional intelligence. I will always represent the Dominican Republic with pride and give my best.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Violence is never the answer. At the end of the game things got out of control after an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":97631,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85,69281],"class_list":["post-97630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-sports","tag-spurs-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97630","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=97630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97630\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}