{"id":2443506,"date":"2019-04-27T14:36:34","date_gmt":"2019-04-27T20:36:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=828318"},"modified":"2019-04-27T14:36:34","modified_gmt":"2019-04-27T20:36:34","slug":"philadelphia-76ers-co-owner-slams-judge-for-preventing-meek-mill-from-attending-toronto-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/music-news\/philadelphia-76ers-co-owner-slams-judge-for-preventing-meek-mill-from-attending-toronto-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia 76ers Co-Owner Slams Judge for Preventing Meek Mill From Attending Toronto Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/GettyImages-950947144.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>After <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/meek-mill\/\" id=\"auto-tag_meek-mill\" data-tag=\"meek-mill\">Meek Mill<\/a> was denied permission to travel to Canada for the Philadelphia 76ers game Saturday against the Toronto Raptors, the 76ers\u2019 co-owner called out the judge who has legally tormented the rapper.<\/p>\n<p>The 76ers\u2019 co-owner Michael Rubin slammed Common Pleas Court Judge Genece E. Brinkley for ignoring the team\u2019s many requests to secure permission to allow Meek Mill to attend Game 1 in Toronto; Brinkley controversially sentenced the rapper to two-to-four years in prison for a parole violation and continues to oversee his case.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know you have a vendetta against Meek Mill and are obsessed with trying to control every aspect of his life, but did you really NOT approve him to go to rep the [S]ixers in Toronto for the game? Do you also hate PHILLY?\u201d Rubin wrote Friday on Instagram.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BwvCu23hYYw\/\" data-instgrm-version=\"12\" readability=\"-1.0494450050454\"><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cAs soon as the schedule came out, Meek asked probation for approval- they immediately approved\u2026 We filed w\/your court as soon as the schedule came out since you need to approve travel to Canada! Since you didn\u2019t respond to numerous phone calls and emails we even sent a lawyer to the courthouse today!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Drake, the Raptors\u2019 \u201cglobal ambassador\u201d who squashed his beef with Meek Mill, also lobbied for the rapper\u2019s presence at Game 1 as their hometown teams faced off:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"4.6917293233083\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\" xml:lang=\"en\">.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Drake?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">@Drake<\/a> wants <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MeekMill?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">@MeekMill<\/a> in the 6 for this Toronto-Philly series. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Hc6utUTpn6\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/Hc6utUTpn6<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NBA on ESPN (@ESPNNBA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ESPNNBA\/status\/1122208329718206465?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">April 27, 2019<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Rubin, Meek Mill and Jay-Z are among the founders of the Reform Alliance for a new initiative dedicated to changing the \u201cillogical laws that make no sense,\u201d Rubin <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/jay-z-meek-mill-reform-alliance-criminal-justice-783228\/\">told <em>Rolling Stone<\/em><\/a> in January.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/philadelphia-76ers-co-owner-slams-judge-for-preventing-meek-mill-from-attending-toronto-game-828318\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After Meek Mill was denied permission to travel to Canada for the Philadelphia 76ers game Saturday against the Toronto Raptors, the 76ers\u2019 co-owner called out the judge who has legally tormented the rapper. The 76ers\u2019 co-owner Michael Rubin slammed Common Pleas Court Judge Genece E. Brinkley for ignoring the team\u2019s many requests to secure permission [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2443506","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-18 03:48:47","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2443506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2443506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2443506\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2443506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2443506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2443506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}