{"id":220306,"date":"2019-06-26T03:57:26","date_gmt":"2019-06-26T07:57:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=220306"},"modified":"2019-06-26T03:57:26","modified_gmt":"2019-06-26T07:57:26","slug":"james-harden-kicks-off-manila-tour-with-community-event-at-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/06\/26\/james-harden-kicks-off-manila-tour-with-community-event-at-up\/","title":{"rendered":"James Harden kicks off Manila tour with community event at UP"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_220307\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-220307\" style=\"width: 744px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Screen-Shot-2019-06-26-at-09.40.53.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-220307 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Screen-Shot-2019-06-26-at-09.40.53.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"744\" height=\"762\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Screen-Shot-2019-06-26-at-09.40.53.png 744w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Screen-Shot-2019-06-26-at-09.40.53-768x786.png 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Screen-Shot-2019-06-26-at-09.40.53-20x20.png 20w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 744px) 100vw, 744px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-220307\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE: &#8220;We have more in store for The Beard. Let\u2019s make his stay the best one ever, Manila.&#8221; (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BzIkVLhFbDj\/\">Photo<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/adidasph\/\">@adidasph<\/a>\/<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\">Instagram<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Amidst a controversial discussion between National Basketball Association (NBA) fans on the recently announced Most Valuable Player (MVP), Houston Rockets\u2019 James Harden, who placed second to Giannis Antetokounmpo, spent his Tuesday, June 25 at the University of the Philippines (UP) campus for the first day of his Adidas promotional tour in the country.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The 29-year-old guard landed in Manila from China earlier in the day, then immediately went to the university campus to meet with the Pilipinas Warriors, the national wheelchair basketball team of the Philippines and the UP women\u2019s basketball team.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Adidas Philippines posted a series of photos from their event, entitled \u201cFree to Harden Manila\u201d to their 592,000 social media followers, captioned, \u201cDay one. James Harden has landed. Not one to rest, he spent his day in UP Diliman with the Pilipinas Warriors and Mulan Lucman from the UP Women\u2019s Basketball Team. We have more in store for The Beard. Let\u2019s make his stay the best one ever, Manila.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sharing that it is his fourth time in the Philippines, Harden told the media present, \u201cEvery time I come I have an amazing time. Obviously, you guys have a different type of respect, love and passion for the game of basketball so it makes me want to continue to come back. Thank you guys. I hope I can continue to inspire you. Keep having dreams and keep chasing dreams.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The main event of Harden\u2019s tour will be happening on Wednesday, June 26 as he visits the Adidas store in Bonifacio Global City for a press conference then proceeds to the SMX Convention Center in Pasay to meet and greet fans.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amidst a controversial discussion between National Basketball Association (NBA) fans on the recently announced Most Valuable Player (MVP), Houston Rockets\u2019 &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":220307,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-220306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","mauthors-gianna-llanes","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220306","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=220306"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":220432,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220306\/revisions\/220432"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}