{"id":222053,"date":"2021-06-26T11:43:12","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T09:43:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=222053"},"modified":"2021-06-26T11:43:12","modified_gmt":"2021-06-26T09:43:12","slug":"australias-ryan-broekhoff-withdraws-from-tokyo-2020-citing-mental-health-issues-as-reason","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/australias-ryan-broekhoff-withdraws-from-tokyo-2020-citing-mental-health-issues-as-reason\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia&#8217;s Ryan Broekhoff withdraws from Tokyo 2020, citing mental health issues as reason"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"article-summary-title\">\n<p>Boomers\u2019 Ryan Broekhoff has advised Basketball Australia that he will not be able to join the Olympic squad travelling to the USA this week for the final selection camp ahead of the Olympic Team announcement in early July.<\/p>\n<div class=\"banner banner--300x250 single__rectangle 1222093 banner500\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"post-entry\">\n<p>Broekhoff, who played for Australia in Rio 2016, said the following, per the Australian Basketball Federation: \u201cfor me to play at my best I need to be mentally and physically firing, and I\u2019m not there right now. My mental health is something I have struggled with for a long time and I think it\u2019s important for me to put my hand up and admit when things aren\u2019t ok and that it is time to seek help. To play at this level, the team needs me to be 100%, I can\u2019t in all good conscience say that I\u2019m in a place to deliver that. Everyone who knows me understands the gut-wrenching decision this is, as representing my country is the highest honour I have had in my career. I know that Goorj (coach Brian Goorjian) and the team can bring home the gold and I will be cheering on from home.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Mavs forward won&#8217;t be in Japan with the Boomers<\/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":[389,381],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-222053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australia","category-olympic-games"],"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\/222053","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=222053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222053\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222053"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=222053"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=222053"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=222053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}