{"id":202869,"date":"2021-03-01T09:51:01","date_gmt":"2021-03-01T08:51:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=202869"},"modified":"2021-03-01T09:51:01","modified_gmt":"2021-03-01T08:51:01","slug":"robert-covington-to-take-part-in-skills-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/robert-covington-to-take-part-in-skills-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"Robert Covington to take part in Skills Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Portland Trail Blazers forward Robert Covington, the NBA&#8217;s lone player from a Historically Black College and University, is expected to take part in the Skills Challenge during the NBA All-Star Weekend, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/story\/_\/id\/30981338\/robert-covington-nba-lone-active-hbcu-alum-enter-skills-challenge-all-star-weekend-source-says\">a source told ESPN&#8217;s The Undefeated.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The competition, which will feature the former Tennessee State star, will be held prior to the All-Star Game in Atlanta on Sunday. In fact, the NBA will be highlighting HBCUs across All-Star Weekend, which will also include a 3-point and dunk contest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The competition, which will feature the former Tennessee State star, will be held prior to the All-Star Game in Atlanta on Sunday<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":145,"featured_media":202868,"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":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-202869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/03\/BI47PYDHSREKDC7YS26NR2DPY4.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202869","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=202869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202869\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202869"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=202869"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=202869"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=202869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}