{"id":726,"date":"2014-08-07T12:32:52","date_gmt":"2014-08-07T16:32:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nba\/?p=726"},"modified":"2014-08-07T12:32:53","modified_gmt":"2014-08-07T16:32:53","slug":"nba-player-greg-oden-arrested-facing-battery-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nba\/2014\/08\/07\/nba-player-greg-oden-arrested-facing-battery-charges\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA player Greg Oden arrested, facing battery charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-727 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nba\/files\/2014\/08\/oden.jpg\" alt=\"oden\" width=\"594\" height=\"398\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nba\/files\/2014\/08\/oden.jpg 594w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nba\/files\/2014\/08\/oden-300x201.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Greg Oden\u00a0has been arrested in Indianapolis on battery charges alleging that he punched a woman in the face.<\/p>\n<p>A police report says officers were called to a home around 3:30 a.m. in the 7200 block of Maple Bluff Place where they found a woman on a bed crying with a bloody face.<\/p>\n<p>Oden allegedly told officers &#8220;things got out of control&#8221; during an argument with his ex-girlfriend and he punched her in the face as others tried to hold him back.<\/p>\n<p>According to the report, Oden told police that he dated the female for two years, and they broke up about two months ago. A relative that talked to police said that every time the two go out there&#8217;s an argument between the two.<\/p>\n<p>Oden was apologetic, according to the report.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was wrong, and I know what has to happen,&#8221; Oden said.<\/p>\n<p>Oden was taken to the processing center where his initial hearing will be held today, where he faces preliminary charges of battery.<\/p>\n<p>Oden last played basketball in 2013 with the Miami Heat, playing in 23 games and\u00a0averaging 2.9 points.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greg Oden\u00a0has been arrested in Indianapolis on battery charges alleging that he punched a woman in the face. A police report says officers were called to a home around 3:30 a.m. in the 7200 block of Maple Bluff Place where they found a woman on a bed crying with a bloody face. Oden allegedly told [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":727,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,11],"tags":[224,5],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":["post-726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba-news","category-nba-topstory","tag-greg-oden","tag-nba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=726"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":728,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726\/revisions\/728"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=726"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}