{"id":1860,"date":"2011-04-13T10:09:22","date_gmt":"2011-04-13T18:09:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/?p=1860"},"modified":"2011-04-13T10:09:22","modified_gmt":"2011-04-13T18:09:22","slug":"around-the-nba-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/around-the-nba-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Around the NBA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/lj.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1862\" title=\"lj\" src=\"http:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/lj-300x240.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/lj-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/lj-342x273.jpg 342w, https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/lj.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>As the NBA&#8217;s regular season winds down, teams are jockeying for playoff  positioning in the hopes of holding homecourt advantage as deep as  possible into the postseason. Chicago, in the East, and San Antonio in  the West have already clinched the best records in their respective  conferences, while the two are within one game of each other for  securing overall best won-loss record. All of the sixteen playoff berths  have also been determined, although some seedings are still to be  decided.<\/p>\n<p>Debate is hot and heavy as to the league&#8217;s MVP for 2010-11 with the top  contenders being Derrick Rose of Chicago, Dwight Howard of Orlando, Kobe  Bryant of the Lakers, LeBron James and Dwyane Wade of Miami, Chris Paul  of New Orleans, Dirk Nowitzki of Dallas and Kevin Durant of Oklahoma  City. Rose is perhaps the favorite due to his remarkable job in leading  the Bulls back among the league&#8217;s elite, which they&#8217;d been absent from  ever since Michael Jordan&#8217;s retirement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the NBA&#8217;s regular season winds down, teams are jockeying for playoff positioning in the hopes of holding homecourt advantage as deep as possible into the postseason. Chicago, in the East, and San Antonio in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1862,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,16],"tags":[1021,794,1022,1019,1020,1023,433,1018,888],"class_list":["post-1860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured-news","category-sports-recreation","tag-chris-paul","tag-derrick-rose","tag-dirk-nowitzki","tag-dwight-howard","tag-dwyane-wade","tag-kevin-durant","tag-lebron-james","tag-mvp","tag-nba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1860","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=1860"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1865,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1860\/revisions\/1865"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}