{"id":2740,"date":"2010-10-26T14:09:02","date_gmt":"2010-10-26T19:09:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=2740"},"modified":"2010-10-26T14:09:32","modified_gmt":"2010-10-26T19:09:32","slug":"three-bold-predictions-about-the-nba-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=2740","title":{"rendered":"Three Bold Predictions About the NBA Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You might not have noticed, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chron.com\/disp\/story.mpl\/sports\/bk\/bkn\/7263919.html\">the NBA Regular Season starts tonight<\/a>. And what&#8217;s the use of having a blog if you can&#8217;t post <del>foolhardy<\/del> bold predictions?<\/p>\n<p>So here are three bold predictions for the coming season:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>The Rockets will reach the playoffs.\n<li>If Yao Ming stays healthy, the Rockets will reach the Western Conference Finals.\n<li>Either way, the Lakers <i>will not<\/i> repeat as Western Conference Champions. I think this is the year when Kobe Bryant finally starts to show too much wear on the tires. Even if the Rockets fall short, I expect Oklahoma City or Portland to edge the Lakers.\n<\/ol>\n<p>Anyone else care to chime in with their own predictions?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You might not have noticed, but the NBA Regular Season starts tonight. And what&#8217;s the use of having a blog if you can&#8217;t post foolhardy bold predictions? So here are three bold predictions for the coming season: The Rockets will reach the playoffs. If Yao Ming stays healthy, the Rockets will reach the Western Conference [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":6,"footnotes":""},"categories":[157],"tags":[1985,158,679,252,680,681,400],"class_list":["post-2740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-basketball","tag-basketball","tag-houston-rockets","tag-los-angeles-lakers","tag-nba","tag-oklahoma-city-thunder","tag-portland-trailblazers","tag-yao-ming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2740"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2745,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2740\/revisions\/2745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}