{"id":136787,"date":"2018-01-18T16:28:43","date_gmt":"2018-01-18T22:28:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=136787"},"modified":"2018-01-18T16:31:12","modified_gmt":"2018-01-18T22:31:12","slug":"afflalo-suspended-2-games-fight-with-wolves-bjelica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=136787","title":{"rendered":"Afflalo suspended 2 games, fight with Wolves Bjelica"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-136788\" src=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Alfflalo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"177\" height=\"285\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Alfflalo.jpg 177w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Alfflalo-109x175.jpg 109w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 177px) 100vw, 177px\" \/>NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Orlando&#8217;s Aaron Afflalo has been suspended two games without pay by the NBA for fighting with Minnesota&#8217;s Nemanja Bjelica.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nba.com\/video\/2018\/01\/18\/20180118-afflalo-nemanja-bjelica\">Afflalo punched Bjelica in the head<\/a> in the fight that took place with 7:28 left in the second quarter of the Magic&#8217;s 108-102 victory on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Though both players were ejected after Bjelica put Afflalo in a headlock, only Afflalo was punished Thursday by NBA executive vice president of operations Kiki VanDeWeghe.<\/p>\n<p>Afflalo will miss Orlando&#8217;s games at Cleveland on Thursday and Sunday at Boston.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Orlando&#8217;s Aaron Afflalo has been suspended two games without pay by the NBA for fighting with Minnesota&#8217;s Nemanja Bjelica. Afflalo punched Bjelica in the head in the fight that took place with 7:28 left in the second quarter of the Magic&#8217;s 108-102 victory on Tuesday. Though [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7811,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=136787"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136790,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136787\/revisions\/136790"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=136787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=136787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=136787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}