{"id":1732,"date":"2007-10-29T11:27:27","date_gmt":"2007-10-29T16:27:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/nba-preview-part-1\/"},"modified":"2007-10-29T11:27:27","modified_gmt":"2007-10-29T16:27:27","slug":"nba-preview-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/nba-preview-part-1","title":{"rendered":"NBA Preview, Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

I warned ya, and now it’s here! Just in time for tomorrow night’s NBA season tip-off, it’s the annual Virtual Memories NBA 2007-08 Preview<\/a>!<\/p>\n

(Well it’s Part 1. We’ll getcha the second half tomorrow, along with our end-of-season predictions!)\u00c2\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Brought to you by the finest dance-team in East Rutherford, NJ<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I warned ya, and now it’s here! Just in time for tomorrow night’s NBA season tip-off, it’s the annual Virtual Memories NBA 2007-08 Preview! (Well it’s Part 1. We’ll getcha the second half tomorrow, along with our end-of-season predictions!)\u00c2\u00a0 Brought to you by the finest dance-team in East Rutherford, NJ!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,29,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-basketball","category-nba-preview","category-sports"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-rW","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2789,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/nba-preview-aaiee","url_meta":{"origin":1732,"position":0},"title":"NBA PREVIEW! AAIEE!","author":"Gil","date":"October 28, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"It's that time of year, dear readers! The 2008-09 NBA season is starting tonight, so that means it's time to check out the official Virtual Memories NBA Season Preview! Sure, you might want to go straight to the team-by-team previews, but I think you really want to check out contributor\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "basketball"","block_context":{"text":"basketball","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/sports\/basketball"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1752,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/nba-preview-part-2","url_meta":{"origin":1732,"position":1},"title":"NBA Preview, Part 2","author":"Gil","date":"October 30, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"The Virtual Memories 2007-08 NBA Preview is complete! It's got profiles of all 30 teams, season honor predictions, and gratuitous comics and pharma references galore! Many thanks to all of the contributors who helped out with this year's edition! We'll now return to my regularly scheduled incoherent rants.","rel":"","context":"In "basketball"","block_context":{"text":"basketball","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/sports\/basketball"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1189,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/all-done","url_meta":{"origin":1732,"position":2},"title":"All done!","author":"Gil","date":"November 4, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"The last NBA divisional preview is up! Go, Northwest! (It's still a preview even though the season started a few days ago, right?) Thanks to all who contributed to this year's preview: Tom Spurgeon, Craig Sirkin, Sam Richezza, and Adam Taxin! I promise to coordinate this thing better next year!\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "NBA Preview"","block_context":{"text":"NBA Preview","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/sports\/basketball\/nba-preview"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1182,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/the-living-thank-you-too","url_meta":{"origin":1732,"position":3},"title":"The Living Thank You, Too!","author":"Gil","date":"November 2, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Happy Day of the Dead, all you zombies and zombettes! To commemorate the event, I was too exhausted this morning to write up more NBA previews, so the next update will be this evening. But I decided to make this blog easier for readers who don't give a crap about\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "basketball"","block_context":{"text":"basketball","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/sports\/basketball"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1700,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/nba-preview-the-warnening","url_meta":{"origin":1732,"position":4},"title":"NBA Preview: The Warnening!","author":"Gil","date":"October 19, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"The annual Virtual Memories NBA Preview will post next week! It promises to be filled with inscrutable cultural references, obscure free-agent details, and predictions that stand no chance of coming true! You've been warned! To tide you over, here's a photo I just received as part of an e-mail from\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "basketball"","block_context":{"text":"basketball","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/sports\/basketball"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/images\/knicksballs.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":1188,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/more-nba","url_meta":{"origin":1732,"position":5},"title":"More NBA!","author":"Gil","date":"November 3, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Two more NBA divisional previews are up on the Official VM NBA Preview page! The Atlantic & the Pacific! Only one division left! Let's hope I get it done before Sunday's business trip to Orlando! Exclamation point!","rel":"","context":"In "basketball"","block_context":{"text":"basketball","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/sports\/basketball"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"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=1732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1732\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}