{"id":486848,"date":"2026-03-06T16:00:43","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T15:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=486848"},"modified":"2026-03-06T16:00:43","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T15:00:43","slug":"mike-james-apologizes-to-okobo-i-should-have-handled-it-differently","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/mike-james-apologizes-to-okobo-i-should-have-handled-it-differently\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike James apologizes to Okobo: &#8220;I should have handled it differently&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"51\" data-end=\"298\">During the evening of Thursday, March 5, Monaco suffered a loss on the court of Fenerbahce, but also faced an unpleasant situation: Mike James and Elie Okobo were involved in an argument, with the former Olimpia Milano player pushing his teammate.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"300\" data-end=\"441\">Earlier today, Mike James issued an apology. Through a tweet, the player apologized to his teammate and his family. Below are his statements.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">So this is my public apology for how i handled the end of the game yesterday. To my brother Elie and the Okobo family i apologize. It\u2019s embarrassing for us all and i definitely should have handled it differently and let my emotions get the best of me.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Mike James (@TheNatural_05) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheNatural_05\/status\/2029927518250099088?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 6, 2026<\/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>The two players clashed during Thursday\u2019s game against Fenerbahce, but James has publicly expressed regret for his actions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":174,"featured_media":486779,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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":[237,199],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-486848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-betclic-elite","category-euroleague"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/03\/Screenshot-2026-03-06-alle-08.58.37.png","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486848","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\/174"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=486848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486848\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/486779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486848"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=486848"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=486848"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=486848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}