{"id":12885,"date":"2018-01-15T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-01-15T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/nick-kyrgios-shoots-down-reporter-over-awkward-question\/"},"modified":"2018-01-15T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-01-15T00:00:00","slug":"nick-kyrgios-shoots-down-reporter-over-awkward-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/sport\/nick-kyrgios-shoots-down-reporter-over-awkward-question\/","title":{"rendered":"Nick Kyrgios Shoots Down Reporter Over Awkward Question"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Nick Kyrgios was left scratching his head during a press conference following his Aussie Open first round win over Rogerio Dutra Silva.<\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"400\" width=\"700\" class=\"media-element file-default nova-lazyload-image-wrapper lz-cont img-responsive\" data-delta=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/kyrgios_5.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Kyrgios was asked by a US reporter about NFL player Colin Kaepernick who refused to stand during the national anthem last year in protest against police brutality.<\/p>\n<blockquote><h3>Reporter: \u201cYou\u2019re friends with the American football player Colin Kaepernick and have been supportive of him in the past, what are your thoughts on his not being signed by an American football team this season?\u201d<\/h3>\n<h3>Nick Kyrgios: \u201cI don\u2019t think I\u2019ve ever spoken to him in my life.\u201d<\/h3>\n<h3>R: \u201cBut what are your thoughts about that?\u201d<\/h3>\n<h3>N: \u201cWhere does that question even come from? We\u2019re at the Australian Open, man. Are we done?\u201d<\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.news.com.au\/sport\/tennis\/nick-kyrgios-shuts-down-bizarre-press-conference-question\/news-story\/47c131897229f44b86d459713d6cea83\" target=\"_blank\">WATCH the bizarre moment here<\/a><\/p>\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&#39;Are we done?&#39;: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NickKyrgios?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@NickKyrgios<\/a> slaps down American reporter after bizarre press conference question <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/U7ot60W3Fj\">https:\/\/t.co\/U7ot60W3Fj<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2A2kVb5iZY\">pic.twitter.com\/2A2kVb5iZY<\/a><\/p>&mdash; news.com.au (@newscomauHQ) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/newscomauHQ\/status\/952998131628675079?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 15, 2018<\/a><\/blockquote>&#13;\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nick Kyrgios was left scratching his head during a press conference following his Aussie Open first round win over Rogerio Dutra Silva. Kyrgios was asked by a US reporter about NFL player Colin Kaepernick who refused to stand during the national anthem last year in protest against police brutality. Reporter: \u201cYou\u2019re friends with the American [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":12886,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[143],"tags":[],"geo_market":[],"class_list":["post-12885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Nick Kyrgios Shoots Down Reporter Over Awkward Question - FIVEAA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/sport\/nick-kyrgios-shoots-down-reporter-over-awkward-question\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Nick Kyrgios Shoots Down Reporter Over Awkward Question\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Nick Kyrgios was left scratching his head during a press conference following his Aussie Open first round win over Rogerio Dutra Silva. 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