{"id":173541,"date":"2020-09-22T09:29:16","date_gmt":"2020-09-22T07:29:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=173541"},"modified":"2020-09-22T09:30:37","modified_gmt":"2020-09-22T07:30:37","slug":"michael-jordan-joins-danny-hamlin-to-form-a-nascar-team-with-bubba-wallace-as-driver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/michael-jordan-joins-danny-hamlin-to-form-a-nascar-team-with-bubba-wallace-as-driver\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Jordan joins Danny Hamlin to form a NASCAR team, with Bubba Wallace as driver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Denny Hamlin has joined Charlotte Hornets owner Michael Jordan to form a NASCAR team with Bubba Wallace as the driver, marking a high-profile pairing of a Black majority team owner and the only Black driver at NASCAR&#8217;s top level.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Tonight, I\u2019m excited to announce MJ and I are starting a new, single car <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NASCAR?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@NASCAR<\/a> Cup Series team for 2021. Deciding on a driver was easy &#8211; it had to be <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BubbaWallace?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@BubbaWallace<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/nIJv0X6ZOX\">pic.twitter.com\/nIJv0X6ZOX<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Denny Hamlin (@dennyhamlin) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dennyhamlin\/status\/1308207098581393408?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 22, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Historically, NASCAR has struggled with diversity, and there have been few Black owners,&#8221; Jordan said in his statement. &#8220;The timing seemed perfect, as NASCAR is evolving and embracing social change more and more.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Jordan becomes the first Black principal owner of a full-time Cup team since Hall of Famer Wendell Scott drove his own race car in 495 races from 1961 to 1973. Scott&#8217;s 1964 victory at the Jacksonville 200 is the only win by a Black driver in Cup history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jordan becomes the first Black principal owner of a full-time Cup team since Hall of Famer Wendell Scott drove his own race car in 495 races from 1961 to 1973<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":145,"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":[92],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-173541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nba"],"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\/173541","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\/145"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173541\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173541"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=173541"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=173541"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=173541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}