{"id":3359,"date":"2005-06-15T10:57:22","date_gmt":"2005-06-15T18:57:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/2005\/06\/15\/game-three\/"},"modified":"2005-06-15T10:57:22","modified_gmt":"2005-06-15T18:57:22","slug":"game-three","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2005\/06\/15\/game-three\/","title":{"rendered":"Game Three"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tOK, the Pistons had a <a href=\"http:\/\/sportsillustrated.cnn.com\/2005\/basketball\/nba\/specials\/playoffs\/2005\/06\/14\/spurs.pistons.ap\/index.html\">good game for a change:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The defending champions summoned the spirit and spunk that had been missing in the first two games of the NBA Finals, changing the complexion of the series in a way many thought impossible.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Spunk not withstanding, Ben Wallace played way over his head last night, and he can&#8217;t maintain the pace for another three games. <\/p>\n<p>But isn&#8217;t it odd that Miami star Dwayne Wade was seriously injured in the Heat&#8217;s playoff series with Detroit, and so was Spurs star Manu Ginobili? Just a coincidence, of course, nobody would accuse the Pistons of being a bunch of thugs.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK, the Pistons had a good game for a change: The defending champions summoned the spirit and spunk that had been missing in the first two games of the NBA Finals, changing the complexion of the series in a way many thought impossible. Spunk not withstanding, Ben Wallace played way over his head last night, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2005\/06\/15\/game-three\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Game Three&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-Sb","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3359\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}