{"id":612000,"date":"2026-02-19T17:04:19","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T17:04:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/612000\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T17:04:19","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T17:04:19","slug":"much-respect-to-deni-avdija-the-first-israeli-born","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/612000\/","title":{"rendered":"Much Respect To Deni Avdija, The First Israeli-Born \u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spike Lee: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DU4LyP_EqyB\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Much Respect To Deni Avdija, The First Israeli-Born Player In The NBA All-Star Game. Congratulations Also To All The Players And The NBA. There Has Been Some Conjecture About What I Wore To The Games on Saturday and Sunday. The Clothes I Wore are Symbols of My Concern For The Palestinian Children and Civilians,;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Much Respect To Deni Avdija, The First Israeli-Born Player In The NBA All-Star Game. Congratulations Also To All The Players And The NBA. There Has Been Some Conjecture About What I Wore To The Games on Saturday and Sunday. The Clothes I Wore are Symbols of My Concern For The Palestinian Children and Civilians,<\/a> And My Utmost Belief In Human Dignity For All Humankind. What I Wore Was Not Intended As A Gesture Of Hostility To Jewish People Or To Support Violence Against Anyone, Nor Was It Intended As A Comment On The Significance Of Deni Being An All-Star. There Were 28 NBA Players Chosen To Be In LA This Weekend. I Didn\u2019t Know Them All And Deni Playing For The Portland Trailblazers, A West Coast Team, I Didn\u2019t Know Deni As The First Israeli Born NBA All-Star. He can BALL. NOW I DO KNOW. LIVE AND LEARN. ONWARD AND UPWARD PEACE AND LOVE YA-DIG? SHO-NUFF SPIKE LEE<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DU4LyP_EqyB\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Instagram;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Instagram<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Spike Lee: Much Respect To Deni Avdija, The First Israeli-Born Player In The NBA All-Star Game. Congratulations Also&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":612001,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3784],"tags":[7,601,980,6,7218,81209,687,471,3967,5567,81210,1617],"class_list":["post-612000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-portland-trail-blazers","tag-basketball","tag-blazers","tag-deni-avdija","tag-nba","tag-nba-all-star-game","tag-palestinian-children","tag-portland","tag-portland-trail-blazers","tag-portlandtrailblazers","tag-spike-lee","tag-the-portland-trailblazers","tag-trail-blazers"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116098385202792515","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612000","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=612000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612000\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/612001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=612000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=612000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=612000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}