{"id":374,"date":"2007-01-25T06:33:17","date_gmt":"2007-01-25T12:33:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php\/2007\/01\/25\/absence-of-interest\/"},"modified":"2009-05-30T09:21:58","modified_gmt":"2009-05-30T14:21:58","slug":"absence-of-interest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=374","title":{"rendered":"Absence of Interest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/150\/story\/958438.html\">Jim Souhan&#8217;s piece on the T-Wooves&#8217; travails&#8230;<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Timberwolves could defend their decision to fire coach Dwane Casey if he were allowed to execute one final act as a Wolves employee: help Kevin McHale and Glen Taylor pack.<\/p>\n<p>McHale will need help gathering the tools of his trade as an NBA executive &#8212; the calculator that exponentially inflated the value of the likes of Michael Olowokandi, Troy Hudson and Eddie Griffin; the magnifying glass that helped him discern the talents of Mike James and Marcus Banks; the appointment calendar with the summer months missing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8230;and find myself handicapped by the fact that pro basketball is the only professional sport more boring than the NHL.<\/p>\n<p>That is all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I read Jim Souhan&#8217;s piece on the T-Wooves&#8217; travails&#8230;: The Timberwolves could defend their decision to fire coach Dwane Casey if he were allowed to execute one final act as a Wolves employee: help Kevin McHale and Glen Taylor pack. McHale will need help gathering the tools of his trade as an NBA executive &#8212; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-rare-sports-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}