{"id":15846,"date":"2018-05-11T20:31:00","date_gmt":"2018-05-11T20:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/2018\/05\/11\/theres-no-surprise-in-the-nba-final-teams-but-theres-still-lots-of-excitement\/"},"modified":"2018-05-11T20:31:00","modified_gmt":"2018-05-11T20:31:00","slug":"theres-no-surprise-in-the-nba-final-teams-but-theres-still-lots-of-excitement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/theres-no-surprise-in-the-nba-final-teams-but-theres-still-lots-of-excitement\/","title":{"rendered":"There&#039;s No Surprise In The NBA Final Teams, But There&#039;s Still Lots Of Excitement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-style:italic;font-size:16px\">By  <a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2018\/05\/11\/610529458\/theres-no-surprise-in-the-nba-final-teams-but-there-s-still-lots-of-excitement?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=sports\">Tom Goldman<\/a><\/span>  <\/p>\n<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a class=\"colorbox\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2018\/05\/11\/610529458\/theres-no-surprise-in-the-nba-final-teams-but-there-s-still-lots-of-excitement?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=sports\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/media.npr.org\/include\/images\/facebook-default-wide.jpg?s=1400\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>The NBA is down to its final four teams in the quest for the next champion. There are no surprises, but basketball fans are giddy with excitement about the players and the coaches about to compete for a title.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a class=\"colorbox\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/blockads.fivefilters.org\/\">Let&#8217;s block ads!<\/a><\/strong> <a class=\"colorbox\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/blockads.fivefilters.org\/acceptable.html\">(Why?)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2018\/05\/11\/610529458\/theres-no-surprise-in-the-nba-final-teams-but-there-s-still-lots-of-excitement?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=sports\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"There&#039;s No Surprise In The NBA Final Teams, But There&#039;s Still Lots Of Excitement\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2018\/05\/11\/610529458\/theres-no-surprise-in-the-nba-final-teams-but-there-s-still-lots-of-excitement?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=sports<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a class=\"colorbox\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2018\/05\/11\/610529458\/theres-no-surprise-in-the-nba-final-teams-but-there-s-still-lots-of-excitement?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=sports\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/media.npr.org\/include\/images\/facebook-default-wide.jpg?s=1400\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>The NBA is down to its final four teams in the quest for the next champion. There are no surprises, but basketball fans are giddy with excitement about the players and the coaches about to compete for a title.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a class=\"colorbox\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/blockads.fivefilters.org\/\">Let&#8217;s block ads!<\/a><\/strong> <a class=\"colorbox\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/blockads.fivefilters.org\/acceptable.html\">(Why?)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[221],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15846\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}