{"id":6035,"date":"2011-04-25T15:58:26","date_gmt":"2011-04-25T19:58:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=6035"},"modified":"2011-04-25T15:58:26","modified_gmt":"2011-04-25T19:58:26","slug":"lakers-show-psa-after-kobe-bryant%e2%80%99s-anti-gay-slur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=6035","title":{"rendered":"Lakers Show PSA After Kobe Bryant\u2019s Anti-Gay Slur"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES \u2014 The Los Angeles Lakers have debuted a public-service announcement at Staples Center in response to <strong>Kobe Bryant\u2019s<\/strong> anti-gay slur.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bryant<\/strong> and four teammates appeared in the PSA released during the second quarter of Wednesday night\u2019s playoff game against the New Orleans Hornets.<\/p>\n<p>The Lakers speak out about respecting different kinds of people in the world, with <strong>Bryant <\/strong>noting that words can be hurtful in regard to sexual orientation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bryant <\/strong>was fined $100,000 by the NBA for using a common homophobic slur in frustration over a referee\u2019s call. The Lakers agreed to work with the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation after <strong>Bryant\u2019s<\/strong> apology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES \u2014 The Los Angeles Lakers have debuted a public-service announcement at Staples Center in response to Kobe Bryant\u2019s anti-gay slur. Bryant and four teammates appeared in the PSA released during the second quarter of Wednesday night\u2019s playoff game against the New Orleans Hornets. The Lakers speak out about respecting different kinds of people [&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-6035","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\/6035","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=6035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6035\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}