{"id":1739,"date":"2011-04-04T10:10:43","date_gmt":"2011-04-04T18:10:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/?p=1739"},"modified":"2011-04-04T10:10:43","modified_gmt":"2011-04-04T18:10:43","slug":"around-the-nba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/around-the-nba\/","title":{"rendered":"Around the NBA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On a busy Sunday in the NBA, the San Antonio Spurs ended their six-game  losing streak by defeating the struggling Phoenix Suns 114-97. The Suns  are officially eliminated from the playoffs.<\/p>\n<p>The Denver Nuggets snapped the Los Angeles Lakers&#8217; nine game win streak  with a 95-90 victory in Los Angeles to create a 2.5 game gap between the  Spurs and Lakers for the No.1 spot in the Western Conference.<\/p>\n<p>The Portland Trail Blazers won their eighth straight home game with a  104- 96 win over the Dallas Mavericks, who suffered their second  straight road loss.<\/p>\n<p>In the Eastern Conference, Shaquille O&#8217;Neal was finally back for the  Boston Celtics, but was out after suffering a calf injury after only  five minutes of play. The Celtics were able to defeat the Detroit  Pistons 101-90.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/shaq.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1740\" title=\"shaq\" src=\"http:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/shaq-226x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"226\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/shaq-226x300.jpg 226w, https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/shaq.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 226px) 100vw, 226px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The New York Knicks clinched a playoff spot with a 123-107 win over the Cleveland Cavaliers as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On a busy Sunday in the NBA, the San Antonio Spurs ended their six-game losing streak by defeating the struggling Phoenix Suns 114-97. The Suns are officially eliminated from the playoffs. The Denver Nuggets snapped&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1740,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,16],"tags":[956,957,888,954,955],"class_list":["post-1739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured-news","category-sports-recreation","tag-injury","tag-knicks","tag-nba","tag-playoffs","tag-shaq"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1739"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1743,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1739\/revisions\/1743"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}