{"id":3416,"date":"2021-11-08T16:09:09","date_gmt":"2021-11-08T12:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=3416"},"modified":"2021-11-10T08:45:25","modified_gmt":"2021-11-10T04:45:25","slug":"how-do-these-guys-ever-lose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=3416","title":{"rendered":"How do these guys ever lose?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday night I got to see the Los Angeles Lakers play for the first time this season. LA&#8217;s roster currently includes LeBron James (to be fair, LeBron didn&#8217;t play Saturday), Anthony Davis, Russell Westbrook, Rajon Rando, DeAndre Jordan, Dwight Howard, and Carmelo Anthony. (Seriously, how did this happen?) I know none of these guys is 25 anymore, but these are like seven of the greatest basketball players this century.<\/p>\n<p>How do these guys ever lose?<\/p>\n<p>In Saturday&#8217;s game at Portland the Lakers were down 22 points after the first quarter and ended up losing by 15. They&#8217;re 5-5 right now, good for 10th place in the Western Conference. Even\u00a0<em>bad<\/em> grandpas gotta be better than <em>that<\/em>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday night I got to see the Los Angeles Lakers play for the first time this season. LA&#8217;s roster currently includes LeBron James (to be fair, LeBron didn&#8217;t play Saturday), Anthony Davis, Russell Westbrook, Rajon Rando, DeAndre Jordan, Dwight Howard, &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=3416\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3416"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3422,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3416\/revisions\/3422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}