{"id":9417,"date":"2016-12-15T22:19:38","date_gmt":"2016-12-15T22:19:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/2016\/12\/15\/new-nba-contract-with-players-union-sees-reduced-number-of-back-to-back-games\/"},"modified":"2016-12-15T22:19:38","modified_gmt":"2016-12-15T22:19:38","slug":"new-nba-contract-with-players-union-sees-reduced-number-of-back-to-back-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/new-nba-contract-with-players-union-sees-reduced-number-of-back-to-back-games\/","title":{"rendered":"New NBA Contract With Players Union Sees Reduced Number Of Back-To-Back Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-style:italic;font-size:16px\">By  <a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2016\/12\/15\/505751349\/new-nba-contract-with-players-union-sees-reduced-number-of-back-to-back-games?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=sports\">NPR Staff<\/a><\/span>  <\/p>\n<p>NPR&#8217;s Audie Cornish talks with Tom Haberstroh of ESPN about the growing trend of NBA players sitting out on games\u2014not due to injury, but to rest. This does not sit well with fans, nor gamblers.<\/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:\/\/github.com\/fivefilters\/block-ads\/wiki\/There-are-no-acceptable-ads\">(Why?)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2016\/12\/15\/505751349\/new-nba-contract-with-players-union-sees-reduced-number-of-back-to-back-games?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=sports\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"New NBA Contract With Players Union Sees Reduced Number Of Back-To-Back Games\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2016\/12\/15\/505751349\/new-nba-contract-with-players-union-sees-reduced-number-of-back-to-back-games?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=sports<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NPR&#8217;s Audie Cornish talks with Tom Haberstroh of ESPN about the growing trend of NBA players sitting out on games\u2014not due to injury, but to rest. This does not sit well with fans, nor gamblers.<\/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:\/\/github.com\/fivefilters\/block-ads\/wiki\/There-are-no-acceptable-ads\">(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-9417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9417","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=9417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9417\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}