{"id":290134,"date":"2023-04-27T00:39:21","date_gmt":"2023-04-27T00:39:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=290134"},"modified":"2023-04-27T01:58:54","modified_gmt":"2023-04-27T01:58:54","slug":"women-allegedly-struck-with-chair-by-raging-nba-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=290134","title":{"rendered":"Women allegedly struck with chair by raging NBA star"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/basketball\/nba\/minnesota-timberwolves\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"Minnesota Timberwolves\">Minnesota Timberwolves<\/a> star Anthony Edwards was cited for third degree assault by Denver police following the team&#x27;s season-ending loss to the Nuggets, after he allegedly swung a folding chair and struck two women who were working at the time at Ball Arena.<\/p>\n<p>Denver beat Minnesota 112-109 on Wednesday AEST to win the first-round <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/basketball\/nba\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"NBA\">NBA<\/a> playoff series in five games. Edwards missed the tying three-point attempt at the buzzer.<\/p>\n<p>According to the report received by Denver police, Edwards was walking off the court to the locker room when he swung the chair and injured the employees. 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He made just eight of 29 shots, but scored eight points down the stretch to help the Nuggets fend off the pesky Timberwolves.<\/p>\n<p>Michael Malone passed Doug Moe with his 25th playoff win as Nuggets head coach.<\/p>\n<p>The top-seeded Nuggets will face the Phoenix Suns in the second round.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>For a daily dose of the best of the breaking news and exclusive content from Wide World of Sports, subscribe to our newsletter by<\/strong><\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/login.nine.com.au\/edm?client_id=wwos&amp;redirect_uri=https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au&amp;newsletter=true\"><em><strong>clicking here<\/strong><\/em><\/a><em><strong>!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Minnesota Timberwolves star Anthony Edwards was cited for third degree assault by Denver police following the team&#x27;s season-ending loss to the Nuggets, after he allegedly <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=290134\" title=\"Women allegedly struck with chair by raging NBA star\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":290138,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290134"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=290134"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":290139,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290134\/revisions\/290139"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/290138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=290134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=290134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=290134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}