bios<\/a>!<\/p>\n–Gil Roth<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
It’s time for the race (well, marathon) to see who will keep the Spurs from repeating THIS time! Which is to say, “The new NBA season is upon us!” Sure, the league’s been pummeled lately, what with the referee-gambling scandal, the Knicks’ ugly sexual harassment suit, and the uncompetitive finals. Sure, the top draft pick, … <\/p>\n
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Surprise Playoff Teams Tom: Charlotte, Portland Craig: NJ and Lakers Gil: Milwaukee, Lakers (post-Kobe trade) Surprise Non-Playoff Teams Tom: Golden State, Washington\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1755,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/nba-2007-08-preview\/tip-off-interview","url_meta":{"origin":1713,"position":1},"title":"Tip-Off Interview","author":"Gil","date":"October 30, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"To celebrate the Tipoff of the NBA season, I did an interview yesterday on the Adam Taxin Radio Show on WNWR 1540 AM in Philadelphia. You can download the audio (mp3, about about 3mb) or just read this transcript: Adam Taxin: The baseball season ended not much more than 24\u2026","rel":"","context":"With 1 comment","block_context":{"text":"With 1 comment","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/nba-2007-08-preview\/tip-off-interview#comments"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1721,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/nba-2007-08-preview\/charlotte-bobcats","url_meta":{"origin":1713,"position":2},"title":"Charlotte Bobcats","author":"Gil","date":"October 28, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Predicted Record 28-54 (Tom), 38-44 (Gil) Last Year's Record 33-49 Gil's Commentary Michael Jordan took over as GM last year and drafted \"the safe pick\" in Adam Morrison. Of course, he was terrible. Jordan's an awful talent-evaluator, as he showed in his tenure at Washington. I think the draft-day trade\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1751,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/nba-2007-08-preview\/san-antonio-spurs","url_meta":{"origin":1713,"position":3},"title":"San Antonio Spurs","author":"Gil","date":"October 30, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Predicted Record 57-25 (Tom), 59-23 (Gil) Last Year's Record 58-24 Tom's Commentary The Spurs are even boring in the pre-season, so it's hard to want to talk to about them. They're kind of to the NBA what the original-run Joe Gibbs Redskins were to the NFL in the '80s --\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1729,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/nba-2007-08-preview\/seattle-supersonics","url_meta":{"origin":1713,"position":4},"title":"Seattle Supersonics","author":"Gil","date":"October 28, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Predicted Record 19-63 (Tom), 24-58 (Gil) Last Year's Record 31-51 Tom's Commentary The Sonics head into 2007-2008 pinning their hopes on a talented rookie, and not the \"take us to the next level\" kind of hope but the \"we need you to win more than seven games all year\" hope.\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1744,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/nba-2007-08-preview\/milwaukee-bucks","url_meta":{"origin":1713,"position":5},"title":"Milwaukee Bucks","author":"Gil","date":"October 30, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Predicted Record 44-38 (Tom), 40-42 (Gil) Last Year's Record 28-54 Gil's Commentary Looking over last year's writeup, it seemed like they had some talented pieces, and were looking to move up in the Central. 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I'm gonna say that injuries wreaked havoc with the Bucks'\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1713\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}