{"id":3375,"date":"2005-06-21T15:45:13","date_gmt":"2005-06-21T23:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/2005\/06\/21\/nba-stuff\/"},"modified":"2005-06-21T15:45:13","modified_gmt":"2005-06-21T23:45:13","slug":"nba-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2005\/06\/21\/nba-stuff\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA stuff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tFortunately, the NBA owners and union made a deal and <a href=\"http:\/\/sportsillustrated.cnn.com\/2005\/basketball\/nba\/06\/21\/bc.bkn.nbalabor.ap\/index.html\">averted a strike:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>NEW YORK (AP) &#8212; NEW YORK (AP) &#8212; A one-year increase in the minimum age to be eligible to play in the NBA was part of a new six-year collective bargaining tentatively agreed to Tuesday by owners and players, averting the possibility of a lockout.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Why is it that strikes are the only things that ever get &#8220;averted&#8221; anyway? Meanwhile, the Spurs have a chance to seal the championship tonight, thanks to some superhuman play by Big Shot Bob Horry in game 5, capped by a three-pointer with seconds to go in overtime. <\/p>\n<p>BSB saved Tim Duncan&#8217;s bacon because the star was struggling on his rickety ankles in the OT.  I think the Spurs will win tonight, but if the Pistons can avert elimination all bets are off for game 7. It seems like I should have predicted this to be a 6 game series but I don&#8217;t think I ever got around to it.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fortunately, the NBA owners and union made a deal and averted a strike: NEW YORK (AP) &#8212; NEW YORK (AP) &#8212; A one-year increase in the minimum age to be eligible to play in the NBA was part of a new six-year collective bargaining tentatively agreed to Tuesday by owners and players, averting the possibility &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2005\/06\/21\/nba-stuff\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;NBA stuff&#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-3375","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-Sr","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3375","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=3375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3375\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}