{"id":5872,"date":"2013-05-17T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-17T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.168.195.175\/index.php\/2013\/05\/17\/nerlens-noel-befriends-leukemia-patient\/"},"modified":"2013-05-17T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-05-17T09:00:00","slug":"nerlens-noel-befriends-leukemia-patient","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.goodworldnews.org\/index.php\/2013\/05\/17\/nerlens-noel-befriends-leukemia-patient\/","title":{"rendered":"Nerlens Noel befriends Leukemia patient"},"content":{"rendered":"<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-5871\" src=\"http:\/\/192.168.195.175\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/2039f9c06c46d5e4b5d871c0089d076b.jpg\" alt=\"- Image credit: Mike Coppola\/Getty Images\" class=\"caption\" title=\"Nerlens Noel and Kelly Melton on the red carpet\" width=\"675\" height=\"1024\" \/>\n<div style=\"font: 13px\/normal arial, sans-serif; color: #222222; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; background-color: #ffffff; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;\">Nerlens Noel looks like the clear shot to be the #1 draft pick in this years NBA draft after just one year at the University of Kentucky.\u00a0 Noel tore his ACL during the year, and during that time he made frequent visits to the Kentucky Children&#8217;s Hospital in Lexington.\u00a0 He made friends with a special kid named Kelly Melton, a 7-year old battling Leukemia.\u00a0 Noel decided he would bring Kelly as a special guest with him to the Kentucky Derby and all of the red carpet events.\u00a0 You be the judge of who&#8217;s the sharper dresser here \ud83d\ude42<\/div>\n<div style=\"font: 13px\/normal arial, sans-serif; color: #222222; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; background-color: #ffffff; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<div style=\"font: 13px arial,sans-serif; color: #222222; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Nerlens and Kelly\" width=\"1440\" height=\"810\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ECycc5Gw8C8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"font: 13px\/normal arial, sans-serif; color: #222222; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; background-color: #ffffff; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<div style=\"font: 13px\/normal arial, sans-serif; color: #222222; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; background-color: #ffffff; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;\">Have a great day, and let the Good News be Yours,<\/div>\n<div style=\"font: 13px\/normal arial, sans-serif; color: #222222; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; background-color: #ffffff; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<div style=\"font: 13px\/normal arial, sans-serif; color: #222222; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; background-color: #ffffff; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;\">Jeremy<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nerlens Noel looks like the clear shot to be the #1 draft pick in this years NBA draft after just one year at the University of Kentucky.\u00a0 Noel tore his ACL during the year, and during that time he made frequent visits to the Kentucky Children&#8217;s Hospital in Lexington.\u00a0 He<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodworldnews.org\/index.php\/2013\/05\/17\/nerlens-noel-befriends-leukemia-patient\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":5871,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2862],"tags":[2961,3340],"class_list":["entry","author-jon","post-5872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-basketball","tag-kentucky-derby"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.9 - 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