{"id":497805,"date":"2026-04-02T03:50:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T03:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=497805"},"modified":"2026-04-02T04:22:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T04:22:20","slug":"j-cole-has-signed-a-contract-to-play-in-the-chinese-basketball-association-with-the-nanjing-monkey-kings-per-espn-sources-the-multi-time-grammy-award-winning-and-multi-platinum-artist-had-committed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=497805","title":{"rendered":"J. Cole has signed a contract to play in the Chinese Basketball Association with the Nanjing Monkey Kings, per ESPN sources. The multi-time Grammy award-winning and multi-platinum artist had committed to playing a few games for the Chinese team last year, and now follows through."},"content":{"rendered":"<table>\n<tr>\n<td> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/sports\/comments\/1sa6rxv\/j_cole_has_signed_a_contract_to_play_in_the\/\"> <img src=\"https:\/\/external-preview.redd.it\/EsNqB48o34Tz6BuwjLpDYSBVhS_qZXVDzkIHp08vcHI.png?width=640&amp;crop=smart&amp;auto=webp&amp;s=f7faea5d3070e891d2ffcfec277d1403e7d801ea\" alt=\"J. Cole has signed a contract to play in the Chinese Basketball Association with the Nanjing Monkey Kings, per ESPN sources. The multi-time Grammy award-winning and multi-platinum artist had committed to playing a few games for the Chinese team last year, and now follows through.\" title=\"J. Cole has signed a contract to play in the Chinese Basketball Association with the Nanjing Monkey Kings, per ESPN sources. The multi-time Grammy award-winning and multi-platinum artist had committed to playing a few games for the Chinese team last year, and now follows through.\" \/> <\/a> <\/td>\n<td> &#032; submitted by &#032; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/user\/PlayaSlayaX\"> \/u\/PlayaSlayaX <\/a> <br \/> <span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/contributor\/shams-charania\/f0d746946b9b8\">[link]<\/a><\/span> &#032; <span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/sports\/comments\/1sa6rxv\/j_cole_has_signed_a_contract_to_play_in_the\/\">[comments]<\/a><\/span> <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>&#032; submitted by &#032; \/u\/PlayaSlayaX [link] &#032; [comments]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":449525,"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\/497805"}],"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=497805"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":497807,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497805\/revisions\/497807"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/449525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=497805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=497805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=497805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}