{"id":59934,"date":"2015-08-25T22:46:52","date_gmt":"2015-08-25T14:46:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=59934"},"modified":"2015-08-25T22:46:52","modified_gmt":"2015-08-25T14:46:52","slug":"jordan-clarkson-will-play-for-gilas-pilipinas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/08\/25\/jordan-clarkson-will-play-for-gilas-pilipinas\/","title":{"rendered":"Jordan Clarkson will play for Gilas Pilipinas"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_59935\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-59935\" style=\"width: 479px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Jordan_Clarkson_with_Missouri_in_2014.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-59935\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Jordan_Clarkson_with_Missouri_in_2014.jpg\" alt=\"Lakers guard Jordan Clarkson sprints past A&amp;M's Don Thomas. (Photo from Wikipedia\/Mark Schierbecker)\" width=\"479\" height=\"599\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Jordan_Clarkson_with_Missouri_in_2014.jpg 479w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Jordan_Clarkson_with_Missouri_in_2014-240x300.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 479px) 100vw, 479px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-59935\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lakers guard Jordan Clarkson sprints past A&amp;M&#8217;s Don Thomas. (Photo from <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jordan_Clarkson\" target=\"_blank\">Wikipedia<\/a>\/Mark Schierbecker)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA \u2013 Filipino-American Los Angeles\u2019 Lakers guard Jordan Clarkson has been set to play for Gilas Pilipinas in the 2015 FIBA Asia Championships, after the Samahang Basketbol ng Pilipinas (SBP) submitted its official list of players.<\/p>\n<p>The list immediately circulated online and netizens have been abuzz over Clarkson\u2019s inclusion.<\/p>\n<p>Basketball coach Chot Reyes earlier recruited the Filipino-American rookie in the previous national team. Owning a Philippine passport, he was eligible to represent the Philippines in international games.<\/p>\n<p>With the FIBA Championships nearing, Clarkson has already arrived in the country and joined the national team\u2019s practices.<\/p>\n<p>Aside from the Lakers guard, also included in the list of Gilas Pilipinas players were June Mar Fajardo, Marcio Lassiter, Paul Lee, Bobby Ray Parks, Marc Pingris, Kiefer Ravena, LA Tenorio, among others who already started training under Coach Tab Baldwin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA \u2013 Filipino-American Los Angeles\u2019 Lakers guard Jordan Clarkson has been set to play for Gilas Pilipinas in the 2015 &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":59935,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,44],"tags":[249],"class_list":["post-59934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-sports","tag-rewrite","mauthors-cyra-moraleda","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59934","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=59934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59934\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}