{"id":947,"date":"2006-05-10T05:21:15","date_gmt":"2006-05-10T10:21:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/hoopalike\/"},"modified":"2006-05-10T05:25:43","modified_gmt":"2006-05-10T10:25:43","slug":"hoopalike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/hoopalike","title":{"rendered":"Hoopalike"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ladies and gentleman, the basketball\/celebrity lookalike page<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Personally, I think Keon Clark<\/a> looks more like Delroy Lindo than Lamar Odom does, but that Bill Walton one is just cruel.<\/p>\n

(This came up because Amy marveled over how much Drew Gooden<\/a> looks like Ray Nagin<\/a>, and marveled over why I never pointed this out to her when the Cavs were playing, since I’m a fount of useless hoops factoids and commentary.)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ladies and gentleman, the basketball\/celebrity lookalike page. Personally, I think Keon Clark looks more like Delroy Lindo than Lamar Odom does, but that Bill Walton one is just cruel. (This came up because Amy marveled over how much Drew Gooden looks like Ray Nagin, and marveled over why I never pointed this out to her … <\/p>\n

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