{"id":1115,"date":"2009-11-22T06:06:45","date_gmt":"2009-11-22T12:06:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=1115"},"modified":"2019-03-30T17:35:20","modified_gmt":"2019-03-30T17:35:20","slug":"nba-broadcasters-suspended-for-iranian-remarks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/nba-broadcasters-suspended-for-iranian-remarks\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA broadcasters suspended for Iranian remarks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/NBA.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1116\" title=\"NBA\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/NBA-280x169.jpg\" alt=\"NBA\" width=\"280\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/NBA-280x169.jpg 280w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/NBA.jpg 586w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 280px) 100vw, 280px\" \/><\/a>Vince Carter scored 10 of his 26 points in the fourth quarter, including a tiebreaking fadeaway jumper with 2:33 left to help Orlando win 83-78 over host Boston on Friday night.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Carter took 29 shots, his most in almost three years.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m just glad I was able to deliver,&#8221; he said. &#8220;This type of basketball game, you don&#8217;t want to let down. This is what it&#8217;s all about.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Rashard Lewis had 16 points and 10 rebounds, Dwight Howard grabbed 15 rebounds, and Mickael Pietrus added 14 points for Orlando, which won its fourth straight.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is a big game for us, a confidence booster,&#8221; Lewis said. &#8220;We rode Vince a lot tonight.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Celtics, who have lost three of their past four games, were 2 of 19 on 3-point shots and shot 34.5 percent overall.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think that our team is playing awful,&#8221; coach Doc Rivers said.<\/p>\n<p>Hawks 105, Rockets 103: After sitting for all but 44 seconds of the final period because of foul trouble, Josh Smith soared through the lane to drop in a missed shot with 0.7 seconds remaining, and host Atlanta won its seventh in a row.<\/p>\n<p>Carl Landry hit a pair of free throws with five seconds left to cap Houston&#8217;s 11-1 run that tied the score at 103. The Hawks got the ball to Mike Bibby, whose 17-foot jumper bounced off the front of the rim. But Smith flew down the middle of the lane, grabbed the rebound and scored.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vince Carter scored 10 of his 26 points in the fourth quarter, including a tiebreaking fadeaway jumper with 2:33 left to help Orlando win 83-78 over host Boston on Friday night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,80],"tags":[1778,1801,1796,1789,1800,1798,77177,1794,1791,1792],"class_list":["post-1115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-basketball","category-breaking-news","tag-carl-landry","tag-iranian-remarks","tag-josh-smith","tag-mickael-pietrus","tag-mickael-pietrus-nba","tag-mike-bibby","tag-nba","tag-nba-boston","tag-nba-mickael-pietrus","tag-vince-carter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1115\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}