{"id":1647,"date":"2005-08-06T00:01:54","date_gmt":"2005-08-06T00:01:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=1647"},"modified":"2005-08-06T00:01:54","modified_gmt":"2005-08-06T00:01:54","slug":"chinese_basketb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=1647","title":{"rendered":"Chinese Basketball Team to Play Ryan Coached Team at the Fieldhouse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wispolitics.com\/index.iml?Article=42141\">WisPolitics<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>The Metropolitan Milwaukee Association of Commerce (MMAC) China Council and the Milwaukee Bucks today announced that the professional Chinese Basketball Association&#8217;s Beijing Ducks will play a free exhibition game at the University of Wisconsin Field House during the team&#8217;s 12-day trip to Wisconsin. The Ducks will take on Madison-area college stars and aspiring professionals &#8211; coached by University of Wisconsin men&#8217;s basketball coach Bo Ryan &#8211; at 7 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 11.<br \/>\nThe exhibition game is free and open to the public. No tickets are required.<br \/>\n&#8220;The Beijing Ducks&#8217; visit to Wisconsin marks the first time a professional Chinese basketball team has come to the United States, and we are excited and honored that they will be using the University of Wisconsin&#8217;s facilities during their trip,&#8221; UW assistant coach Greg Gard said. &#8220;This should be a fun game for both the players and the spectators. We hope many people will come out and take advantage of this great opportunity to see top-level basketball at no cost.&#8221; <\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WisPolitics: The Metropolitan Milwaukee Association of Commerce (MMAC) China Council and the Milwaukee Bucks today announced that the professional Chinese Basketball Association&#8217;s Beijing Ducks will play a free exhibition game at the University of Wisconsin Field House during the team&#8217;s 12-day trip to Wisconsin. The Ducks will take on Madison-area college stars and aspiring professionals [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1647"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1647\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}