{"id":1685,"date":"2008-04-20T20:01:16","date_gmt":"2008-04-21T01:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/2008\/04\/20\/sixers\/"},"modified":"2008-04-20T20:01:16","modified_gmt":"2008-04-21T01:01:16","slug":"sixers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/20\/sixers\/","title":{"rendered":"Sixers!!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My beloved Philadelphia Seventy-Sixers, under the coaching tutelage of local hero Maurice Cheeks, have returned to the playoffs after a two-year absence.  It wasn&#8217;t easy; they started the season with an ugly 5-13 record, but turned it around late to slip into the seventh seed in the tepid Eastern Conference.  Their efforts earned them a series with the Detroit Pistons, a perennial power who finished with the league&#8217;s second-best record.  Pistons center Rasheed Wallace has played in more playoff games than all 15 members of the 76ers roster combined.<\/p>\n<p>But this afternoon, the plucky Sixers came back from a 15-point third-quarter deficit to <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nba\/recap?gid=2008042008\">beat the Pistons in their first game<\/a>.  That&#8217;s why they play the games.  In their honor, here is my favorite video of Mo Cheeks, back from when he was coaching Portland a few years ago:  chokes me up every time I watch it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My beloved Philadelphia Seventy-Sixers, under the coaching tutelage of local hero Maurice Cheeks, have returned to the playoffs after a two-year absence. It wasn&#8217;t easy; they started the season with an ugly 5-13 record, but turned it around late to slip into the seventh seed in the tepid Eastern Conference. Their efforts earned them a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1685\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}