{"id":1666,"date":"2021-11-23T00:17:24","date_gmt":"2021-11-23T00:17:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dbltakesports.com\/?p=1666"},"modified":"2021-11-28T04:03:08","modified_gmt":"2021-11-28T04:03:08","slug":"wizards-bring-in-holidays-with-turkey-assist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbltakesports.com\/index.php\/2021\/11\/23\/wizards-bring-in-holidays-with-turkey-assist\/","title":{"rendered":"Wizards bring in holidays with turkey assist"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As things start to feel a bit more normal amid the pandemic, the&nbsp;Washington Wizards&nbsp;and athletes from the&nbsp;Washington&nbsp;Mystics, Capital&nbsp;City Go-Go&nbsp;and&nbsp;Wizards District Gaming&nbsp;hosted their first community event since Covid-19 halted in-person interaction. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Wizards\u2019&nbsp;Thankful Meals event provided essential holiday items to less fortunate residents in southeast Washington, DC. &nbsp;Community members arrived eager to pick up their goodies and take pictures with Wizards players as the team is currently off to their <a href=\"https:\/\/dbltakesports.com\/index.php\/2021\/11\/18\/video-washington-wizards-in-the-1-spot\/\">best start<\/a> since 1975.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Scenes from the Wizards Thankful Meals community outreach event. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NBA?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#NBA<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/DCAboveAll?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#DCAboveAll<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0onICbiC3Y\">pic.twitter.com\/0onICbiC3Y<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Double Take Sports (@dbltakesports) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dbltakesports\/status\/1462929745495080960?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 22, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/monumentalsports.com\/\">Monumental Sports &amp; Entertainment<\/a> Founder and CEO&nbsp;Ted Leonsis&nbsp;made a financial contribution to&nbsp;support the outreach.&nbsp;In addition to a hot meal from&nbsp;Henry\u2019s Soul&nbsp;Caf\u00e9,&nbsp;the first 500 guests received a turkey courtesy of&nbsp;Bradley Beal.&nbsp;He was also assisted by&nbsp;student athletes from the Ron&nbsp;Brown&nbsp;College Preparatory High School.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Participants&nbsp;also&nbsp;received&nbsp;items to&nbsp;keep&nbsp;warm such as gloves, socks and beanies courtesy of&nbsp;Thomas Bryant,&nbsp;hygiene kits&nbsp;courtesy of&nbsp;Aaron Holiday and his wife Ashli&nbsp;as well as&nbsp;special treats&nbsp;courtesy of&nbsp;Kyle Kuzma&nbsp;and Goodies Frozen Custard &amp; Treats. Many local businesses participated including&nbsp;AlphaLit&nbsp;DC,&nbsp;Cocktails by&nbsp;Cryssy&nbsp;Morel\u2019s Exquisite Designs,&nbsp;Kakes by Kimberley&nbsp;and&nbsp;Southwest Soda Pop Shop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The following&nbsp;other members&nbsp;of the Wizards were in attendance to help distribute meals:&nbsp;Tommy Sheppard,&nbsp;Wes and Evelyn Unseld,&nbsp;Deni Avdija,&nbsp;and Cassius Winston.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Additional attendees from Monumental Sports included: Alysha Clark (Washington Mystics),&nbsp;Jordan Goodwin (Capital City Go-Go),&nbsp;Amber Nichols (Capital City Go-Go), Mike Williams (Capital City Go-Go),&nbsp;Patrick Crossan (Wizards District&nbsp;Gaming), Andrew McNeill (District Gaming) and JustAwkward&nbsp;(District Gaming).&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Wizards recently brought in the holidays with their first community event since the pandemic started for less fortunate residents in southeast Washington, DC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1668,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[29],"class_list":["post-1666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","tag-features"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/dbltakesports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Bradley-Beal-Thankful-Meals2.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbltakesports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbltakesports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbltakesports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbltakesports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbltakesports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1666"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dbltakesports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1718,"href":"https:\/\/dbltakesports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1666\/revisions\/1718"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbltakesports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbltakesports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbltakesports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbltakesports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}