{"id":412916,"date":"2024-08-13T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-08-13T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=412916"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T14:00:00","slug":"NMIBF-meeting-this-Saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/NMIBF-meeting-this-Saturday\/","title":{"rendered":"NMIBF meeting this Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Northern Mariana Islands Basketball Federation is holding a general membership meeting this Saturday, Aug. 17, at 11am in the Gilbert C. Ada Gymnasium conference room.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting will discuss the recap of 2021-current NMIBF activities, financial reports, present to 2026 strategic plans, Ada Gymnasium\/Koblerville Gymnasium updates, general membership annual fee, and current board of director nominations and 2026 board of director elections.<\/p>\n<p>Current NMIBF president, James Lee, is not seeking reelection. He has two more years in his post. He said, \u201cThough it will be two years from now, I would like to prepare us for the transition so that we can all work together, especially for some who are interested in taking the lead.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He invites anyone who is interested in partaking in the meeting and said, \u201cThe NMIBF is for the islands and whatever we do pretty much dictates the future of our sport.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/imgupload\/e4526a34ce6b4268fb6ee6f6c1d4494b.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/p>\n<p>The NMI Men\u2019s National Basketball Team, with president\/coach James Lee, fourth from right facing the camera, during a timeout in one of their games in the 10th Micronesian Games in Marjuro, Marshall Islands.<\/p>\n<p>-LEIGH GASES<br \/><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Northern Mariana Islands Basketball Federation is holding a general membership meeting this Saturday, Aug&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-412916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=412916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412916\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}