{"id":108597,"date":"2026-02-16T12:42:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T16:42:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/abinader-celebrates-towns-performance-in-the-all-star-dominican-pride\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T12:42:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T16:42:06","slug":"abinader-celebrates-towns-performance-in-the-all-star-dominican-pride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/nationals\/abinader-celebrates-towns-performance-in-the-all-star-dominican-pride\/","title":{"rendered":"Abinader celebrates Towns&#8217; performance in the All-Star: &#8220;Dominican Pride&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Abinader celebrates Karl-Anthony Towns&#8217; participation in the NBA All-Star Game<\/h2>\n\nThe President of the Dominican Republic, Luis Abinader, expressed his pride in the participation of basketball player Karl-Anthony Towns in the recent NBA All-Star Weekend.\n\nThrough his account on the social network X, the president highlighted the player&#8217;s presence at the event held in Inglewood, Los Angeles, United States.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Another one of ours conquering foreign beaches.<\/p><cite>Luis Abinader<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nTowns was selected as a reserve for the Eastern Conference for the 2026 All-Star Game, solidifying his position as a prominent figure in the league.\n\nIn the current season, Towns averages 19 points, 11 rebounds, and 2.9 assists in 51 games. With 11 seasons in the NBA, the player earns an annual salary of $49 million.\n\nIn the previous All-Star edition, Towns participated as a starter, demonstrating the high regard he has in the league.\n\nThe selection of the 24 players called up was made through a mixed system, where the starters were chosen by a vote of the public, players and a press panel, while the substitutes were designated by the main coaches of the league.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abinader celebrates Karl-Anthony Towns&#8217; participation in the NBA All-Star Game The President of the Dominican Republic, Luis Abinader, expressed his pride in the participation of basketball player Karl-Anthony Towns in the recent NBA All-Star Weekend. Through his account on the social network X, the president highlighted the player&#8217;s presence at the event held in Inglewood, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":108598,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[997],"tags":[1308,1271,3522,103],"class_list":{"0":"post-108597","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nationals","8":"tag-all-star","9":"tag-dominican-republic","10":"tag-karl-anthony-towns","11":"tag-nba"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108597\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}