{"id":30373,"date":"2023-02-21T17:23:41","date_gmt":"2023-02-21T22:23:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=30373"},"modified":"2023-02-21T17:23:48","modified_gmt":"2023-02-21T22:23:48","slug":"aleem-ford-to-play-for-puerto-rico-mens-world-cup-qualifying-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2023\/02\/21\/aleem-ford-to-play-for-puerto-rico-mens-world-cup-qualifying-team\/","title":{"rendered":"<strong>ALEEM FORD TO PLAY FOR PUERTO RICO MEN\u2019S WORLD CUP QUALIFYING TEAM\u00a0<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Puerto Rico Basketball has announced that Lakeland Magic&#8217;s Aleem Ford will participate in the February 2023 Puerto Rico Men\u2019s World Cup Qualifying Team training camp and games on February 23 and 26.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Aleem_Ford.jpg?w=1110&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-30374\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Aleem Ford. Lakeland Magic vs Mexico City Capitanes. RP Funding Center. Lakeland, Fla. Nov. 9, 2021. (\u00a9 Tom Hagerty)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Brazil will host Puerto Rico on February 23 and will meet Colombia on February 26. The full 2022-23 FIBA World Cup Qualifying schedule is available at&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fiba.basketball\/basketballworldcup\/2023\/americas-qualifiers\/games\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.fiba.basketball\/basketballworldcup\/2023\/americas-qualifiers\/games<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In 34 games played this season for the Lakeland Magic, Ford averaged 11.79 points and 2.88 rebounds in 28.6 minutes per game.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Lakeland Magic will begin a three-game road trip starting against the&nbsp;Cleveland Charge on Friday, February 24 at 7 PM. The game is available to view on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/gleague.nba.com\/game\/lak-vs-clc-2022200305?view=pre-game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">NBAGLeague.com.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Puerto Rico Basketball has announced that Lakeland Magic&#8217;s Aleem Ford will participate in the February 2023 Puerto Rico Men\u2019s World Cup Qualifying Team training camp and games on February 23&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30374,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"0","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","default_image_id":71799,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[28],"tags":[4594],"class_list":["post-30373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lakeland-magic","tag-aleem-ford-to-play-for-puerto-rico-mens-world-cup-qualifying-team"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30373\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}