{"id":136099,"date":"2020-02-24T17:48:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-24T16:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=136099"},"modified":"2020-02-24T17:48:01","modified_gmt":"2020-02-24T16:48:01","slug":"jahlil-okafor-commits-to-play-for-nigerian-nt-in-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/jahlil-okafor-commits-to-play-for-nigerian-nt-in-olympics\/","title":{"rendered":"Jahlil Okafor commits to play for Nigerian NT in Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Orleans Pelicans center Jahlil Okafor has committed to play with the Nigerian national team in the Tokyo Olympics.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Pelicans big man Jahlil Obika Okafor has committed to play with the Nigerian men\u2019s basketball team in 2020 Tokyo Olympics for head coach Mike Brown, he told @TheUndefeated. Okafor\u2019s grandfather Chicko Okafor hails from Enugu, Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Marc J. Spears (@MarcJSpears) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MarcJSpears\/status\/1231801638119075841?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 24, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okafor will play for head coach Mike Brown<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":154,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[103],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-136099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-olympic-games"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.3 - 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