{"id":3115,"date":"2006-05-24T21:30:00","date_gmt":"2006-05-24T21:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=3115"},"modified":"2017-12-20T16:01:43","modified_gmt":"2017-12-20T22:01:43","slug":"sign-that-kid-to-an-nba-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2006\/05\/24\/sign-that-kid-to-an-nba-contract\/","title":{"rendered":"Sign That Kid to an NBA Contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bostonherald.com\/localRegional\/view.bg?articleid=140573\" target=\"_new\">This kid<\/a> has skills:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A Boston defense attorney was nearly strangled to death in a courtroom yesterday by his shackled client &#8211; an accused killer whose case he had unsuccessfully sought to drop. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That&#8217;s the sort of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.go.com\/classic\/biography\/s\/Sprewell_Latrell.html\" target=\"_new\">talent<\/a> one can leverage into a long NBA career.<\/p>\n<p>Bonus flashback: My 1997 riff on Sprewell: <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/CE\/vol1\/cynex111.htm\" target=\"_new\">The Cynic Express(d) 1.11: Barbarians at the Gates<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>(Link seen on <a href=\"http:\/\/wizbangblog.com\/2006\/05\/24\/motion-to-withdraw-granted-bailiff-remove-the-defendant-from-counsels-throat.php\" target=\"_new\">Wizbang!<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This kid has skills: A Boston defense attorney was nearly strangled to death in a courtroom yesterday by his shackled client &#8211; an accused killer whose case he had unsuccessfully sought to drop. That&#8217;s the sort of talent one can leverage into a long NBA career. Bonus flashback: My 1997 riff on Sprewell: The Cynic [&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-3115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3115","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=3115"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18755,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3115\/revisions\/18755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}