{"id":2144,"date":"2005-04-12T14:47:00","date_gmt":"2005-04-12T14:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=2144"},"modified":"2018-07-02T12:23:17","modified_gmt":"2018-07-02T17:23:17","slug":"2144","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2005\/04\/12\/2144\/","title":{"rendered":"Contract and Constitutional Law Taught By Pacers Player"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Professor O&#8217;Neal <a href=\"http:\/\/sportsillustrated.cnn.com\/2005\/basketball\/nba\/04\/12\/bc.bkn.pacers.o.neal.racism.ap\/index.html?cnn=yes\" target=\"_new\">explains<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Indiana center Jermaine O&#8217;Neal said the NBA&#8217;s desire to put an age limit in the next collective bargaining agreement could be driven by racism.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In the last two or three years, the rookie of the year has a been a high school player. There were seven high school players in the All-Star game, so why we even talking an age limit?&#8221; said O&#8217;Neal, who was drafted out of high school in 1996 by the Portland Trail Blazers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As a black guy, you kind of think that&#8217;s the reason why it&#8217;s coming up. You don&#8217;t hear about it in baseball or hockey. To say you have to be 20, 21 to get in the league, it&#8217;s unconstitutional. If I can go to the U.S. army and fight the war at 18, why can&#8217;t you play basketball for 48 minutes?&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Heh.  And that&#8217;s a mean heh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor O&#8217;Neal explains: Indiana center Jermaine O&#8217;Neal said the NBA&#8217;s desire to put an age limit in the next collective bargaining agreement could be driven by racism. &#8220;In the last two or three years, the rookie of the year has a been a high school player. There were seven high school players in the All-Star [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2144"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20311,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2144\/revisions\/20311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}