{"id":176896,"date":"2018-08-15T04:40:00","date_gmt":"2018-08-15T08:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=176896"},"modified":"2018-08-15T04:40:00","modified_gmt":"2018-08-15T08:40:00","slug":"brownlee-possible-gilas-call-love-accept","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/08\/15\/brownlee-possible-gilas-call-love-accept\/","title":{"rendered":"Brownlee on possible Gilas call-up: &#8216;I would love to accept it&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_176706\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-176706\" style=\"width: 415px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Brownlee.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-176706\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Brownlee.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"415\" height=\"260\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Brownlee.jpg 415w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Brownlee-300x188.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 415px) 100vw, 415px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-176706\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE: Barangay Ginebra import Justin Brownlee (PNA photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; Justin Brownlee has expressed his readiness in case the Samahang Basketbol ng Pilipinas (SBP) calls him up for national team duties once his Filipino naturalization has been formalized.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I would love to,&#8221; the Ginebra import answered when asked if he would accept a possible Gilas call-up during Ginebra\u2019s victory party on Monday night. &#8220;I could play with Gilas. That would be incredible &#8212; to represent the Philippines.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>San Miguel Corp. sports director Alfrancis Chua on Sunday revealed that Brownlee wants to be naturalized but for non-national team reasons, something that Brownlee himself confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Right now, I just try to get naturalized just because I love it here in the Philippines,&#8221; the six-foot-five guard-forward continued. &#8220;The way the people embrace me every single day, I fall more and more in love with the Philippines. In just my whole time being here, my love just keeps growing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Brownlee, the newly-crowned PBA Commissioner&#8217;s Cup Best Import, will return to action for the Barangay in the upcoming PBA Governors&#8217; Cup, which will kick off on Friday, although they will not see action until Aug. 31.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; Justin Brownlee has expressed his readiness in case the Samahang Basketbol ng Pilipinas (SBP) calls him up for national &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":176706,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-176896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","mauthors-ivan-stewart-saldajeno","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176896","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=176896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176896\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}