{"id":15878,"date":"2002-06-13T14:22:00","date_gmt":"2002-06-13T14:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2002\/06\/13\/im-not-a-big-basketball-fan-but-i-really-hate\/"},"modified":"2002-06-13T14:22:00","modified_gmt":"2002-06-13T14:22:00","slug":"im-not-a-big-basketball-fan-but-i-really-hate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2002\/06\/13\/im-not-a-big-basketball-fan-but-i-really-hate\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&rsquo;m not a big basketball fan, but I really hate all the fawning compliments given to Shaquille O&#8217;Neal.  Yeah, he&rsquo;s huge, that goes without saying.  So because of his size he doesn&rsquo;t need much of a vertical leap to swat shots away and rebound.  Offensively, it doesn&rsquo;t take all that much skill to walk up to the basket and dunk it when you&rsquo;re as tall as he is.  And his free throws?  C&#8217;mon now, I suck and I can do better than that.  Finally, someone else is willing to come out and tell it like it is: Shaq&rsquo;s  <a href=\"http:\/\/espn.go.com\/page2\/s\/webb\/020612.html\" target=\"_blank\">&ldquo;skillz are wack.&rdquo;<\/a>  Now beyond any name-calling, this reporter has some well-written arguments listing why any other NBA player would not be able to last in the league as long as Shaq has.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-77697427?l=www.driko.org%2Findex_blogger.html\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&rsquo;m not a big basketball fan, but I really hate all the fawning compliments given to Shaquille O&#8217;Neal. Yeah, he&rsquo;s huge, that goes without saying. So because of his size he doesn&rsquo;t need much of a vertical leap to swat shots away and rebound. Offensively, it doesn&rsquo;t take all that much skill to walk up &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2002\/06\/13\/im-not-a-big-basketball-fan-but-i-really-hate\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/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":[118],"class_list":["post-15878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-imported"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15878\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}