{"id":897481,"date":"2024-07-08T10:05:23","date_gmt":"2024-07-08T14:05:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gematsu.com\/?p=897481"},"modified":"2024-07-08T10:05:23","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T14:05:23","slug":"nintendo-switch-sports-basketball-update-launches-july-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gematsu.com\/2024\/07\/nintendo-switch-sports-basketball-update-launches-july-9","title":{"rendered":"Nintendo Switch Sports &#8216;Basketball&#8217; update launches July 9"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nintendo will release a free update for <em>Nintendo Switch Sports<\/em> that adds basketball as a new playable sport on July 9, the company <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NintendoAmerica\/status\/1810313393011638340\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">announced<\/a>. <!--more-->\n<p>Here is an overview of the update, via Nintendo:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Basketball is coming to Spocco Square in the Nintendo Switch Sports game as a free update! Use motion controls to sink as many baskets as you can within the time limit in the solo Three-Point Challenge. If you&#8217;re looking for friendly competition, then up to four players can compete locally in Five-Streak Battle or Three-Point Contest, and you can dribble, pass and score in two-on-two matches locally or online.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>Nintendo Switch Sports<\/em> is available now for Switch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nintendo will release a free update for Nintendo Switch Sports that adds basketball as a &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":897566,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[7269],"tags":[1079,17515,3842,4257],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.gematsu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Switch-Sports-Update_07-08-24.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gematsu.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897481"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gematsu.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gematsu.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gematsu.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gematsu.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=897481"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gematsu.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":897565,"href":"https:\/\/www.gematsu.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897481\/revisions\/897565"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gematsu.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/897566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gematsu.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=897481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gematsu.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=897481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gematsu.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=897481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}