{"id":942805,"date":"2026-10-23T02:30:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-23T02:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/942805\/"},"modified":"2026-10-23T02:30:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T02:30:11","slug":"c-j-miles-goes-from-nba-to-photographing-soul-of-the-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/942805\/","title":{"rendered":"C.J. Miles goes from NBA to photographing soul of the game"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p data-paragraph=\"main\" class=\"has-drop-cap wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/andscape.com\/tag\/C.J.-Miles\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">C.J. Miles<\/a> spent much of his early life honing the skills that would lead to a 16-year career in the NBA. But throughout that journey, there was always a photographer in Miles\u2019s soul.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" data-paragraph=\"main\">Eventually, photography became more than a second career and more than a passion for Miles. It became a way of life.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" data-paragraph=\"main\">Five years after playing in his last NBA game, Miles has thrown himself into capturing the sights, the shapes, the essence of basketball and the joy of the men and women who play the game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" data-paragraph=\"main\">Miles doesn\u2019t just take pictures. He photographs the soul of the game.<\/p>\n<p>William C. Rhoden is a columnist for Andscape and the author of Forty Million Dollar Slaves: The Rise, Fall, and Redemption of the Black Athlete. He directs the Rhoden Fellows, a training program for aspiring journalists from HBCUs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"C.J. Miles spent much of his early life honing the skills that would lead to a 16-year career&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":942806,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[76,354,355,49,48,356,75],"class_list":["post-942805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-design","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=942805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942805\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/942806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=942805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=942805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=942805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}