{"id":356240,"date":"2025-11-05T00:46:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T00:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/356240\/"},"modified":"2025-11-05T00:46:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T00:46:10","slug":"popular-performer-red-panda-makes-her-nba-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/356240\/","title":{"rendered":"Popular performer Red Panda makes her NBA return"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Red Panda wasn\u2019t on the injured list for very long.<\/p>\n<p>The popular halftime performer <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/chicagobulls\/status\/1985851760087355895\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">is scheduled to make her NBA return on Tuesday night<\/a> in Chicago when the Bulls host the Philadelphia 76ers. She <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/red-panda-fall-wnba-eb29d4c4b2f44e86abae8e540cc8e0c4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">broke her left wrist<\/a> during a July 1 performance at the WNBA Commissioner\u2019s Cup final between the Indiana Fever and the Minnesota Lynx.<\/p>\n<p>Red Panda \u2014 whose real name is Rong Niu \u2014 spent <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/red-panda-unicycle-injured-070830311741744e18a141c8e98749a8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">11 hours in a Minneapolis hospital<\/a> after the fall. Her agent, Patrick Figley, said Tuesday that Niu first returned from the injury on Oct. 23 for an Amazon Prime event and she has also made a few appearances at universities.<\/p>\n<p>The Chinese American performer\u2019s act is composed of her riding on the unicycle and balancing custom-made bowls on her lower leg before flipping them atop her head.<\/p>\n<p>She has been a mainstay at countless NBA and college basketball games over the past several years, including Game 5 of the NBA Finals in June in Oklahoma City.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP Basketball Writer Tim Reynolds contributed to this story.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP WNBA: <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/wnba-basketball\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/wnba-basketball<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                                    <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Red Panda wasn\u2019t on the injured list for very long. The popular halftime performer is scheduled to make&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":356241,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[3127,1819,1818,234,17635,1519,1260,6326,5217,173736,2830,3123,62,67,132,68,12860],"class_list":{"0":"post-356240","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-chicago-bulls","9":"tag-il-state-wire","10":"tag-illinois","11":"tag-indiana-fever","12":"tag-minneapolis","13":"tag-minnesota-lynx","14":"tag-nba","15":"tag-nba-basketball","16":"tag-pa-state-wire","17":"tag-patrick-figley","18":"tag-pennsylvania","19":"tag-philadelphia-76ers","20":"tag-sports","21":"tag-united-states","22":"tag-unitedstates","23":"tag-us","24":"tag-womens-national-basketball-association"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115494334358811547","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=356240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356240\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/356241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}