{"id":356357,"date":"2025-11-05T01:54:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T01:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/356357\/"},"modified":"2025-11-05T01:54:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T01:54:14","slug":"red-panda-makes-nba-return-roughly-4-months-after-breaking-wrist-in-fall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/356357\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Panda makes NBA return, roughly 4 months after breaking wrist in fall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1895215\" class=\"wp-image-1895215 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/red-panda-110425.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"4706\" height=\"2645\"\/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-1895215\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rong Niu has been a mainstay at countless NBA and college basketball games over the past several years.<\/p>\n<p>Red Panda wasn\u2019t on the injured list for very long.<\/p>\n<p>The popular halftime performer is scheduled to make her NBA return on Tuesday night in Chicago when the Bulls host the Philadelphia 76ers. She broke her left wrist 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 11 hours in a Minneapolis hospital 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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rong Niu has been a mainstay at countless NBA and college basketball games over the past several years.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":356358,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[173788,62,67,132,68,232],"class_list":{"0":"post-356357","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wnba","8":"tag-red-panda","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us","13":"tag-wnba"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115494601859539739","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356357","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=356357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356357\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/356358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}