{"id":545302,"date":"2026-01-18T20:19:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T20:19:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/545302\/"},"modified":"2026-01-18T20:19:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T20:19:11","slug":"heckler-yells-leave-greenland-alone-during-us-national-anthem-at-nba-game-in-london-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/545302\/","title":{"rendered":"Heckler yells &#8216;leave Greenland alone!&#8217; during US national anthem at NBA game in London"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">LONDON &#8212; A heckler yelled \u201cleave Greenland alone!\u201d while Vanessa Williams sang \u201cThe Star-Spangled Banner\u201d before tipoff of an NBA game in London between the Memphis Grizzlies and the Orlando Magic on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">U.S. President Donald Trump has insisted that the U.S. should <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/greenland-us-options-takeover-trump-denmark-86790903847fc8ffc27334ccb64985a9\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">control Greenland<\/a>, a semiautonomous territory of <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/nato-greenland-trump-denmark-threat-annex-4907c132b499531d8d5fe6cd549c0beb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NATO ally<\/a> Denmark, and said earlier this week that anything less than the Arctic island being in U.S. hands would be \u201cunacceptable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The heckler&#8217;s outburst drew some scattered laughter and applause. Williams was unfazed and completed the song.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">AP NBA: <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nba\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nba<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONDON &#8212; A heckler yelled \u201cleave Greenland alone!\u201d while Vanessa Williams sang \u201cThe Star-Spangled Banner\u201d before tipoff of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":545303,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[74886,1297,7,24461,6,446,66],"class_list":{"0":"post-545302","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-74886","9":"tag-article","10":"tag-basketball","11":"tag-international-agreements","12":"tag-nba","13":"tag-nba-basketball","14":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115917957858459264","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=545302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545302\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/545303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=545302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=545302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=545302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}