{"id":12862,"date":"2012-02-16T15:04:39","date_gmt":"2012-02-16T20:04:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=12862"},"modified":"2012-02-16T15:05:43","modified_gmt":"2012-02-16T20:05:43","slug":"floyd-mayweather-jr-tweets-about-jeremy-lin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=12862","title":{"rendered":"Floyd Mayweather, Jr. Downplays Jeremy Lin Hype"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Boxing great <strong>Floyd Mayweather, Jr.<\/strong> is making news for commentary unrelated to the sport he dominates.<\/p>\n<p>Thursday afternoon, <strong>Mayweather<\/strong> tweeted that New York Knicks guard <strong>Jeremy Lin\u2019s<\/strong> hype is due to his Chinese and Taiwanese heritage. The current WBC welterweight champion also said Black players put up similar numbers to<strong> Lin<\/strong> and do not receive the same credit.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lin<\/strong>, who was recently named Eastern Conference player of the week, has led the Knicks to four straight wins. He\u2019s averaged 27.3 points and 8.3 assists over the four-game span and exceeded his teammates and most fans\u2019 expectations.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mayweather<\/strong> has more than 2 million followers on Twitter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boxing great Floyd Mayweather, Jr. is making news for commentary unrelated to the sport he dominates. Thursday afternoon, Mayweather tweeted that New York Knicks guard Jeremy Lin\u2019s hype is due to his Chinese and Taiwanese heritage. The current WBC welterweight champion also said Black players put up similar numbers to Lin and do not receive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12862\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}