{"id":19259,"date":"2014-05-29T09:40:00","date_gmt":"2014-05-29T09:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/mexico-city-london-to-host-regular-season-games\/"},"modified":"2014-05-29T09:40:00","modified_gmt":"2014-05-29T09:40:00","slug":"mexico-city-london-to-host-regular-season-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/mexico-city-london-to-host-regular-season-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Mexico City, London to host regular-season games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New York, NY (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The NBA announced Thursday that regular- season games will be played in Mexico City and London during the 2014-15 campaign.<\/p>\n<p>The Houston Rockets are scheduled to play the Minnesota Timberwolves at the Mexico City Arena on Nov. 12, while the Milwaukee Bucks and New York Knicks will meet at London&#8217;s The O2 on Jan. 15.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;While London and Mexico City each have their own unique culture, they both have rich sports traditions and share a great passion for the NBA,&#8221; NBA commissioner Adam Silver said in a statement. &#8220;These regular-season games will bring the excitement and incredible competition of our league to more fans in Europe and Latin America.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Timberwolves were supposed to play the San Antonio Spurs at the Mexico City Arena last Dec. 4, but the game was postponed because a generator malfunction filled the venue with smoke.<\/p>\n<p>The league previously announced that preseason games will be held in Brazil, China, Germany and Turkey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York, NY (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The NBA announced Thursday that regular- season games will be played in Mexico City and London during the 2014-15 campaign. The Houston Rockets are scheduled to play the Minnesota Timberwolves at the Mexico City Arena on Nov. 12, while the Milwaukee Bucks and New York Knicks will meet at London&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19259\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}