{"id":3619,"date":"2022-04-29T06:05:30","date_gmt":"2022-04-29T02:05:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=3619"},"modified":"2022-04-29T06:05:30","modified_gmt":"2022-04-29T02:05:30","slug":"nba-playoffs-are-never-easy-to-predict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=3619","title":{"rendered":"NBA playoffs are never easy to predict"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=3566\">Six weeks ago<\/a> I said either the Nets or the Sixers would be heading to the NBA Finals (and Phoenix and Miami wouldn&#8217;t be). I still stand by these statements. (It&#8217;s gonna be Sixers-Warriors, by the way.)<\/p>\n<p>Great as my forecasting abilities are, I certainly didn&#8217;t think the Nets would be\u00a0<em>swept<\/em> in their first round series with Boston.<\/p>\n<p>Wow.<\/p>\n<p>This is like the 1990 A&#8217;s getting swept by the Reds in the World Series.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, you have to be over 35 to get that reference.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re under 35 check your phone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Six weeks ago I said either the Nets or the Sixers would be heading to the NBA Finals (and Phoenix and Miami wouldn&#8217;t be). I still stand by these statements. (It&#8217;s gonna be Sixers-Warriors, by the way.) Great as my &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=3619\">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-3619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3619","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=3619"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3621,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3619\/revisions\/3621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}