{"id":23877,"date":"2014-08-27T12:03:48","date_gmt":"2014-08-27T04:03:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=23877"},"modified":"2014-08-27T21:22:00","modified_gmt":"2014-08-27T13:22:00","slug":"pacquiao-im-excited-to-coach-and-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/08\/27\/pacquiao-im-excited-to-coach-and-play\/","title":{"rendered":"Pacquiao: I\u2019m excited to coach and play"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_12807\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12807\" style=\"width: 604px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Manny-Pacquiao2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12807 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Manny-Pacquiao2.jpg\" alt=\"People's Champ and Sarangani Representative Manny Pacquiao. Photo by Chris Farina \/ Pacquiao's official Facebook page\" width=\"604\" height=\"433\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Manny-Pacquiao2.jpg 604w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Manny-Pacquiao2-300x215.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 604px) 100vw, 604px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-12807\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">People&#8217;s Champ and Sarangani Representative Manny Pacquiao. Photo by Chris Farina \/ Pacquiao&#8217;s official Facebook page<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA &#8212; Pinoy boxing pride Manny Pacquiao said that he is looking forward to playing in the upcoming season of the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am so excited and I can\u2019t wait to coach and also play,\u201d said Pacquiao. \u201cI like basketball also but my priority is boxing,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>However,\u00a0due to the boxing champ\u2019s hectic schedule \u2013 he is currently training for his November 23 fight against Chris Algieri \u2013 he seems hesitant when it comes to how he will divide his time between coaching or playing. KIA Motors\u00a0selected Pacquiao\u00a0in\u00a0the recently concluded PBA rookie draft.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI might coach more because I will be in the middle of training camp,\u201d said Pacquiao.<\/p>\n<p>Pacquiao said that the first game of KIA will be on October 19 against fellow new squad Blackwater.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think I have the patience to coach and tell players what to do,\u201d said Pacquiao.<\/p>\n<p>He will be assisted by Glenn Capacio, Louie Gonzales, and Rob Wainwright.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA &#8212; Pinoy boxing pride Manny Pacquiao said that he is looking forward to playing in the upcoming season of &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":12807,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,44],"tags":[2031],"class_list":["post-23877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-sports","tag-pacquiao","mauthors-lei-fontamillas","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23877","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23877\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}