{"id":5563,"date":"2026-10-21T08:44:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-21T04:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=5563"},"modified":"2026-10-21T07:56:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-21T03:56:13","slug":"wizards-ride-begins-tonight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=5563","title":{"rendered":"Wizards&#8217; ride begins tonight"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My hometown NBA team (that would be the Washington Wizards) begins its season tonight with a game at home against the Milwaukee Bucks. For the first time in several years I&#8217;m actually looking forward to following the team this year, its mix of veterans and younger players intriguing and hopefully serviceable. Not guaranteeing 50 wins or anything, but they&#8217;ve gotta be better than they&#8217;ve been the past three seasons, during which time they&#8217;ve won 50 games <em>total<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Unlike their <a href=\"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=5535\">WNBA counterparts<\/a>, one <em>can<\/em> see these games in person at a reasonable price, benefit I suppose of a team that&#8217;s, well, not so great.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Hasn&#8217;t<\/em> been great, recently, but I&#8217;m ready to go full Charlie Brown kicking the football on this one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Might even see &#8217;em live.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At least it&#8217;ll be affordable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My hometown NBA team (that would be the Washington Wizards) begins its season tonight with a game at home against the Milwaukee Bucks. For the first time in several years I&#8217;m actually looking forward to following the team this year, &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=5563\">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-5563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5563","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=5563"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5566,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5563\/revisions\/5566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}