{"id":159450,"date":"2018-04-10T02:03:51","date_gmt":"2018-04-10T06:03:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=159450"},"modified":"2018-04-10T02:03:51","modified_gmt":"2018-04-10T06:03:51","slug":"batang-gilas-drawn-to-tough-fiba-u17-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/04\/10\/batang-gilas-drawn-to-tough-fiba-u17-group\/","title":{"rendered":"Batang Gilas drawn to tough FIBA U17 group"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_159161\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-159161\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Batang-Gilas.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-159161\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Batang-Gilas.jpg\" alt=\"After the draw Monday, the Philippine side, which finished fourth in the FIBA Asia tourney, goes to Group D with Croatia, France, and the host nation. (Photo: Kai Zachary Sotto\/Facebook)\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Batang-Gilas.jpg 960w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Batang-Gilas-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Batang-Gilas-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-159161\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">After the draw Monday, the Philippine side, which finished fourth in the FIBA Asia tourney, goes to Group D with Croatia, France, and the host nation. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/kaizacharysotto\/photos\/a.995172957246088.1073741828.995162240580493\/1335270079903039\/?type=3&amp;amp;theater\">Photo: Kai Zachary Sotto\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0&#8212; Batang Gilas ended up in a very tough group in the FIBA U17 Championship which will take place in Argentina.<\/p>\n<p>After the draw Monday, the Philippine side, which finished fourth in the FIBA Asia tourney, goes to Group D with Croatia, France, and the host nation.<\/p>\n<p>With the four teams known to be solid in their respective continents, Group D was tagged by many as the &#8220;group of death&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Australia, the eventual champion of the FIBA Asia U16 Championship, joins Group A with Puerto Rico, Turkey, and Dominican Republic, while China, the runner-up, is grouped with Mali, USA, and Serbia in Group B.<\/p>\n<p>The other team at the FIBA Asia podium, New Zealand, joins Canada, Egypt, and Montenegro in Group C.<\/p>\n<p>The FIBA U17 Basketball World Cup 2018 will take place in Argentina from June 30 &#8211; July 8.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; Batang Gilas ended up in a very tough group in the FIBA U17 Championship which will take place in &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":159161,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[49229,7438,49494],"class_list":["post-159450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-batang-gilas","tag-fiba","tag-fiba-u17","mauthors-ivan-stewart-saldajeno","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159450\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/159161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}