{"id":1752,"date":"2007-10-30T10:38:55","date_gmt":"2007-10-30T15:38:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/nba-preview-part-2\/"},"modified":"2007-10-30T10:40:09","modified_gmt":"2007-10-30T15:40:09","slug":"nba-preview-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/nba-preview-part-2","title":{"rendered":"NBA Preview, Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/nba-2007-08-preview\/\" target=\"_blank\">Virtual Memories 2007-08 NBA Preview<\/a> is complete! It&#8217;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&#8217;s edition!<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll now return to my regularly scheduled incoherent rants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Virtual Memories 2007-08 NBA Preview is complete! It&#8217;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&#8217;s edition! 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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!","rel":"","context":"In &quot;basketball&quot;","block_context":{"text":"basketball","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/sports\/basketball"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2789,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/nba-preview-aaiee","url_meta":{"origin":1752,"position":1},"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! 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