{"id":195619,"date":"2020-03-31T14:14:11","date_gmt":"2020-03-31T19:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=195619"},"modified":"2020-03-31T15:10:19","modified_gmt":"2020-03-31T20:10:19","slug":"espn-csi-14-to-show-nba-2k-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=195619","title":{"rendered":"ESPN CSi 14, to show NBA 2K Tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-27797\" src=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/espn.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"120\" height=\"30\" \/>(Field Level Media)\u00a0 The NBA has plans for a players-only NBA 2K video game tournament to be shown on ESPN-CSi Cable 14, Yahoo Sports reported Monday evening.<\/p>\n<p>Per the report, the league hopes to launch the event Friday and involve some big-name players. Each team is expected to have a representative, the report added.<\/p>\n<p>The NBA regular season was suspended on March 11 after Utah Jazz center Rudy Gobert tested positive for COVID-19. Almost every other sport in the United States &#8212; and many across the world &#8212; have been shut down and are expected to remained shut down for some time.<\/p>\n<p>Various esports have continued across the United States, with many moving planned live events into a virtual format. The NBA 2K League &#8212; which features 23 teams, including 22 who are affiliated with NBA franchises &#8212; has postponed its own season, which was scheduled to start March 24.<\/p>\n<p>The Lakers&#8217; Anthony Davis was chosen for the cover of the latest edition of the game, NBA 2K20, after Milwaukee&#8217;s Giannis Antetokounmpo was on the cover for 2K19. Other recent cover athletes include Kyrie Irving, Paul George, Stephen Curry, James Harden, Kevin Durant and LeBron James.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Field Level Media)\u00a0 The NBA has plans for a players-only NBA 2K video game tournament to be shown on ESPN-CSi Cable 14, Yahoo Sports reported Monday evening. Per the report, the league hopes to launch the event Friday and involve some big-name players. Each team is expected to have a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":142660,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195619","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\/195619","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=195619"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":195620,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195619\/revisions\/195620"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/142660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=195619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=195619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=195619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}