{"id":256306,"date":"2026-01-28T18:45:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T18:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/256306\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T18:45:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T18:45:08","slug":"nba-victor-wembanyama-horrified-by-minneapolis-killings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/256306\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA: Victor Wembanyama \u2018horrified\u2019 by Minneapolis killings"},"content":{"rendered":"

A small group of NBA athletes and coaches, including Indiana Pacers star Tyrese Haliburton and Golden State Warriors coach Steve Kerr<\/a>, have already condemned the killings. Haliburton said in a social media post Pretti was \u201cmurdered\u201d.<\/p>\n

Wembanyama\u2019s teammate De\u2019Aaron Fox also spoke out about the killing of Pretti.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019d be charged if I shot someone in the back, they fall. And then even if it\u2019s in my house, even if I\u2019m protecting my property, and then I decide I want to empty the entire clip. That\u2019s where you get to excessive force and all these other things,\u201d Fox said.<\/p>\n

Wembanyama, meanwhile, admitted he had been hesitant to speak at length about the issue, despite his disquiet.<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery day I read the news and I\u2019m sometimes asking very deep questions about my own life,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut you know, I\u2019m conscious also that saying everything that\u2019s on my mind would have a cost that\u2019s too great for me right now.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo I\u2019d rather not get into too many details. It\u2019s terrible. I know I\u2019m a foreigner. I live in this country. I am concerned for sure.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2013 AFP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A small group of NBA athletes and coaches, including Indiana Pacers star Tyrese Haliburton and Golden State Warriors…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":256307,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[75339,17901,121086,1558,3595,66490,12639,690,2837,14051,305,37772,917,119273,108979,40340,111,139,69,3048,10117,213,31120,49519,2179,22730,43510,147910,540],"class_list":["post-256306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-administrations","tag-agents","tag-antonio","tag-been","tag-by","tag-civilians","tag-crackdown","tag-dead","tag-during","tag-federal","tag-have","tag-horrified","tag-immigration","tag-killings","tag-minneapolis","tag-nba","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-said","tag-shot","tag-sports","tag-spurs","tag-superstar","tag-trump","tag-unrest","tag-victor","tag-wembanyama","tag-where"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256306\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/256307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}