{"id":3385,"date":"2005-06-24T10:38:01","date_gmt":"2005-06-24T18:38:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/2005\/06\/24\/and-the-winner-is-the-spurs\/"},"modified":"2005-06-24T10:38:01","modified_gmt":"2005-06-24T18:38:01","slug":"and-the-winner-is-the-spurs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2005\/06\/24\/and-the-winner-is-the-spurs\/","title":{"rendered":"And the winner is &#8230; San Antonio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tWith Rasheed, McDyess, and <a href=\"http:\/\/sportsillustrated.cnn.com\/2005\/basketball\/nba\/specials\/playoffs\/2005\/06\/24\/pistons.billups.ap\/index.html\"> Billups<\/a> in foul trouble &#8211; and Billups unable to beat the tenacious defense of Parker and Bowen &#8211; the Pistons didn&#8217;t have enough bench to beat the Spurs, so the Good Guys won another. <\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re going to see this matchup <a href=\"http:\/\/sportsillustrated.cnn.com\/2005\/writers\/marty_burns\/06\/24\/spurs.future\/index.html\">many more times in years to come<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>I wonder how well the Spurs would play with a true point guard like Billups instead of Parker, who&#8217;s really more of a shooting guard.<\/p>\n<p>SI <a href=\"http:\/\/sportsillustrated.cnn.com\/2005\/writers\/arash_markazi\/06\/24\/hot.read\/index.html\">blogged Game Seven<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Now on to Wimbledon and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cwsomaha.com\/html\/home\/index.asp\">College World Series<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/mossback.org\/pitchers\/sharapova.jpg' alt='' \/>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With Rasheed, McDyess, and Billups in foul trouble &#8211; and Billups unable to beat the tenacious defense of Parker and Bowen &#8211; the Pistons didn&#8217;t have enough bench to beat the Spurs, so the Good Guys won another. We&#8217;re going to see this matchup many more times in years to come. I wonder how well &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2005\/06\/24\/and-the-winner-is-the-spurs\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;And the winner is &#8230; San Antonio&#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-3385","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\/3385","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=3385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3385\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}