{"id":6442,"date":"2016-06-24T18:26:04","date_gmt":"2016-06-24T10:26:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/?p=6442"},"modified":"2016-06-24T18:26:04","modified_gmt":"2016-06-24T10:26:04","slug":"the-black-mamba-returns-to-manila","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/2016\/06\/24\/the-black-mamba-returns-to-manila\/","title":{"rendered":"The Black Mamba returns to Manila"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Two months after he uttered the words \u201cMamba out,\u201d Kobe Bryant is on the move as he makes his way to Manila for the <strong>Mamba Mentality Tour<\/strong> on June 25 and 26.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-6443\" src=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2016\/06\/mamba.jpg\" alt=\"mamba\" width=\"500\" height=\"383\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>MAMBA IS BACK IN MANILA. He dropped 60 in his last game, took a break for 2 months, and now he\u2019s back at it. Photo courtesy of <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/nikebasketball\/photos\/a.93266066308.88800.5941596308\/10153730526336309\/?type=3&amp;theater\"><em>Nike Basketball Official Facebook page<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">A special event will be held tomorrow, June 25, at the Smart Araneta Coliseum, called Mamba Mentality Night.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">The tour\u2019s culminating activity, dubbed \u201cThe Kobe Academy\u201d will happen in June 26. Select basketball players from the Kobe Academy Pre-camp, which happened from June 22 \u2013 24, will join Bryant in this a special training session.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">The Laker legend has set foot on Philippine shores in 1998, where he wore a <em>barong tagalog <\/em>and tried <em>tinikling<\/em>, and in 2011, when he played with collegiate and PBA stars. His last visit in the country was in 2013 for a Lenovo Mobile promotional tour.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><strong><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><em>Source:<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/cnnphilippines.com\/sports\/2016\/06\/17\/Kobe-Bryant-Manila-2016-Mamba-Mentality-Tour.html\"><em>CNN Philippines<\/em><\/a><em>, <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tv5.com.ph\/sports\/basketball\/article\/kobe-bryant-coming-to-manila-next-weekend-for-mamba-mentality-tour\"><em>Sports 5<\/em><\/a><em>, <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rappler.com\/sports\/by-sport\/basketball\/136696-nba-legend-bryant-coming-manila\"><em>Rappler<\/em><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two months after he uttered the words \u201cMamba out,\u201d Kobe Bryant is on the move as he makes his way to Manila for the Mamba Mentality Tour on June 25 and 26. \u00a0 MAMBA IS BACK IN MANILA. He dropped 60 in his last game, took a break for 2 months, and now he\u2019s back at it. Photo courtesy of Nike Basketball Official Facebook page. \u00a0 A special event will be held tomorrow, June 25, at the Smart Araneta Coliseum, called Mamba Mentality Night. The tour\u2019s culminating activity, dubbed \u201cThe Kobe Academy\u201d will happen in June 26. Select basketball players from the Kobe Academy Pre-camp, which happened from June 22 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6443,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-current-events"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2016\/06\/mamba-e1466763928629.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6442"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6444,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6442\/revisions\/6444"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}