{"id":150620,"date":"2020-06-02T22:29:02","date_gmt":"2020-06-02T20:29:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=150620"},"modified":"2020-06-02T22:29:02","modified_gmt":"2020-06-02T20:29:02","slug":"brad-stevens-writes-letter-to-celtics-players-to-show-his-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/brad-stevens-writes-letter-to-celtics-players-to-show-his-support\/","title":{"rendered":"Brad Stevens writes letter to Celtics players to show his support"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Boston Celtics coach Brad Stevens said he sat down over the weekend and wrote a letter to his entire team following protests across the country after the death of George Floyd last week.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I wrote a letter to our guys this weekend and it took me awhile to put down exactly what I wanted to say,&#8221; Stevens said in a video conference call with reporters Tuesday. &#8220;But I think the thing I wanted them to know, is every decent person is hurting. Every decent person feels the pain of the African American community. But I also don&#8217;t want to pretend that I know the exact, distinct pain.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What I wanted them to know is that I&#8217;m with them. I thought that was really important. It&#8217;s so, so great to see so many of the guys so active. &#8230; I&#8217;ve talked to a lot of guys. Everybody&#8217;s hurting. Let&#8217;s put it that way. The leadership they&#8217;ve shown is terrific. And hopefully the most important thing is we can have short-term healing, and we can have near-term gains, and we can have long-term sustainable action that creates change.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stevens has shared his thoughts about the current protests in the USA with his players.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":158,"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,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[399],"tags":[542,1584],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-150620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nba","tag-boston-celtics-en","tag-brad-stevens-en"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/158"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150620\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150620"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=150620"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=150620"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=150620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}